#sufferings

I have survived by representing these sufferings of mine in the form of the novel. ↗

— Kenzaburo Oe

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When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows. ↗

— Yoko Ono

#also #become #first #first step #follows

They said their sufferings were great on the passage, and several of their number had died. ↗

— Lewis Tappan

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In every sufferings you've encountered, there will be an opportunity to settle things in a right place. If that comes, grab it. Learn to forgive. ↗

— Mahadena Madid

#sufferings #forgiveness

The only way God can strengthen his presence in our will is to weaken his presence in our feelings. Otherwise we would become spiritual cripples, unable to walk without emotional crutches. This is why he gives us dryness, sufferings, and failures. ↗

— Peter Kreeft

#faith #god #prayer #sufferings #faith

Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings. ↗

— Donald Cargill

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Maybe people have to really suffer before they can risk doing what they love. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

#love #sufferings #life

Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy. ↗

— Virgil

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We had four years of world war which the peoples endured only because they were told that their sufferings would free humanity forever from the scourge of war. ↗

— Arthur Henderson

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We forget our pleasures, we remember our sufferings. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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