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Not till I was shut up to prayer and to the study of God's word by the loss of earthly joys--sickness destroying the flavor of them all--did I begin to penetrate the mystery that is learned under the cross. And wondrous as it is, how simple is that mystery! To love Christ, and to know that I love Him--this is all. - Mrs. Elizabeth Payson Prentiss Some of His children must go into the furnace to testify that the Son of God is there with them. - Mrs. Elizabeth Payson Prentiss Those whose suffering is due to love are, as we say of certain invalids, their own physicians. - Marcel Proust We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it to the full. - Marcel Proust Suffering is my gain; I bow To my heavenly Father's will, And receive it hushed and still: Suffering is my worship now. - Jean Paul Friedrich Richter (Johann Paul Richter) (used ps. Jean Paul) We have suffered lightly, if we have suffered what we should weep for. [Lat., Levia perpessi sumus Si flenda patimur.] - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Agamemnon (665) Mirth cannot move a soul in agony. - William Shakespeare If there be more, more woeful, hold it in, For I am almost ready to dissolve, Hearing of this. - William Shakespeare, King Lear (Albany at V, iii) Oh, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! - William Shakespeare, The Tempest (Miranda at I, ii) Those who inflict must suffer, for they see The work of their own hearts, and that must be Our chastisement or recompense. - Percy Bysshe Shelley, Julian and Maddalo (l. 494) For there are deeds Which have no form, sufferings which have no tongue. - Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Cenci (act III, sc. 1) The cross of Christ is the pledge to us that the deepest suffering may be the condition of the highest blessing; the sign, not of God's displeasure, but of His widest and most compassionate face. - Dean Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Can it be, O Christ in heaven, that the holiest suffer most, That the strongest wander furthest, and more hopelessly are lost? - Sarah Williams ("Saidie"), Is it so, O Christ in Heaven? (st. 3) Don't look forward to the day when you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know that you're dead. - Tennessee Williams He could afford to suffer With those whom he saw suffer. - William Wordsworth, Excursion (I, 370) Displaying page 2 of 2 for this topic: << Prev 1 [2]
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