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- Nov 07, 2020
Suffering Quotes
Carrying pain, finding meaning.
One quote here describes a personal tribute - tattoos worn in memory of people suffering from hunger around the world - grounding the topic in something concrete rather than abstract. Related themes continue in Life.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some pass their days as though suffering a deep sadness they cannot name. Others are unhappy because life didn't turn out the way they thought it would.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We are free, but not to be evil, not to be indifferent to human suffering, not to profit from the people, from the work created and sustained through their spirit of political association, while refusing to contribute to the political state that we profit from.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In the Christian faith, God really puts suffering front and center. He doesn't get squeamish about it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Anyone who takes the Bible seriously agrees that God hates suffering. Jesus spent most of his time relieving it. But when being healed becomes the only goal - 'I'm not letting go until I get what I want' - it's a problem.
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the extreme political polarization that is everywhere - there's so much suffering going on - so many people are really thirsty to feel good about something.
- Nov 07, 2020
All the suffering, stress, and addiction comes from not realizing you already are what you are looking for.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Suffering will get you great footage. I don't know about closer to God. Although there have been times when I've suffered to the point where I think I might be about to meet him.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make.
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- Nov 07, 2020
In human rights and peacemaking, it's really about having a solid concrete goal - the reduction of human suffering somewhere in the world - and then doing what is required to get that goal achieved.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I owe my life and hope to the gospel. Without it I would still be strutting with racist pride, or I would be suffering the moral paralysis of 'white guilt.' But the gospel has an answer to both pride and guilt.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are always selling the idea that people with mental illness are suffering. I think madness can be an escape. If things are not so good, you maybe want to imagine something better.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the most important person of the world, and people like the Pope would be just like enemies, who would try to put me down in some way or another, or the president. People are always selling the idea that people who have mental illness are suffering.
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- Nov 07, 2020