- Nothing
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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
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing like suffering to remind us how not in control we actually are, how little power we ultimately have, and how much we ultimately need God.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Why's of suffering keep us shrouded in a seemingly bottomless void of abstraction where God is reduced to a finite ethical agent, a limited psychological personality, whose purposes measure on the same scale as ours.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Indeed, there is nothing like suffering to remind us how much we need God. What good news that His purpose and plan for our lives moves in a different direction from ours!
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
We may not ever fully understand why God allows the suffering that devastates our lives. We may not ever find the right answers to how we'll dig ourselves out.
- Compassion
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- Nov 07, 2020
As progressives, we care about the well-being of others. We are soft-hearted and have aloha, respect, compassion for others, and we don't like to see anyone suffering.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hoping to garner the support of the American people, proponents of regime-change wars routinely cite humanitarian concerns to justify military intervention in foreign countries. But here is the reality: As a direct result of our intervention in Iraq and the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, human suffering increased dramatically.
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no denying that the interventionist wars in Iraq and Libya that were propagated as necessary to relieve human suffering actually increased human suffering in those countries - many times over.
- Perspective
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- Nov 07, 2020
Viewed from a holistic ecological perspective, some meat - such as conscientiously hunted animals - involves less suffering and environmental damage than arable agriculture, while both of these are significantly less harmful than indiscriminately purchasing meat on the market.
- Galloping
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- Nov 07, 2020
Britain today is suffering from galloping obsolescence.
- Human
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hezbollah's contempt for human suffering is total, as it showed once again this morning when its rockets murdered two Israeli Arab children in Nazareth.
- Nov 07, 2020
Stem cell research holds enormous promise for easing human suffering, and federal support is critical to its success.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
Is it crazy that George Bush, ex-President of America, now paints pictures of dogs? Tiny, little, nice pictures of dogs, after all the suffering that he caused? That's crazy that he's doing that!
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead.
- Health
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- Nov 07, 2020