We should try our best to relieve the suffering of others in whatever way we can.

If she [woman] is weak in striking, she is strong in suffering.

May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

Some form of suffering often brings about a readiness. One can say it cracks open the shell of the egoic mind with which many people identify as "me." Life cracks open that shell, and once that crack is there, then we are reached more easily by spiritual teaching.

It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering.

There is nothing wrong with God's creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind.

Suffering brings your heart to bear. It gets you where you are!

Without suffering, we do not have the opportunity to cultivate compassion and understanding; and without understanding, there can be no true love.

One suffers as a result of one's own actions. So, instead of blaming others for such sufferings, one should pray to the Lord and depending entirely on His grace, try to bear them patiently and with forbearance under all circumstances.

Watch, O Lord, with those who wake, or watch or weep tonight, and give your angels charge over those who sleep. Tend your sick ones, O Lord Jesus Christ; rest your weary ones; bless your dying ones; soothe your suffering ones; pity your afflicted ones; shield your joyous ones; and all for your love's sake. Amen.

A man of God is like the ocean—undisturbed by the rivers that are coming in. The fullness of peace he experiences within is so great that the problems of the world he has to deal with and the suffering he has to go through become insignificant in comparison. But if you don’t have God, that suffering is the all and all of your life.

The principle aim of psychotherapy is not to transport one to an impossible state of happiness, but to help (the client) acquire steadfastness and patience in the face of suffering.

What the word God means is the mystery really. It's the mystery that we face as humans the mystery of existence, of suffering and of death.

I know I am touching the living body of Christ in the broken bodies of the hungry and the suffering.

Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

When you say something really unkind, when you do something in retaliation your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and he will try hard to say or to do something back to get relief from his suffering. That is how conflict escalates.

Ignorance is the root cause of all suffering.

People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.

Devotion is fearlessness, devotion is suffering. If you are afraid of suffering, forget about devotion.

Think of suffering as being washed.

When we are expecting only suffering, the least joy surprises us: Suffering itself becomes the greatest of joys when we seek it as a precious treasure.

God would turn the world around to find suffering in order to give it to a soul upon whom He has set His Divine gaze with ineffable love.

Worthy persons deserve to be called so because they are not carried away by the eight winds: prosperity, decline, disgrace, honor, praise, censure, suffering, and pleasure. They are neither elated by prosperity nor grieved by decline. The heavenly gods will surely protect one who is unbending before the eight winds.