The more the diamond is cut, the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.
-Thomas Guthrie
Quotations
Suffering
All sacrifice and suffering is redemptive. It is used to either teach the individual or to help others. Nothing is by chance.
-Arthur J. Russell
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Suffering is a product of limited knowledge.
-Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.
-Viktor Frankl
Man suffers only because he takes seriously what the gods made for fun.
-Alan Watts
To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.
-Oscar Wilde
...when I think of you it's with tears, because no one else has such delicate hands that can reach into my soul and calm my fears...
-John Geddes
"A Familiar Rain"
I believe there are more urgent and honorable occupations than the incomparable waste of time we call suffering.
-Colette
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
-Saint Augustine of Hippo
