…men are as vulnerable to joy as they are to suffering.
– Michel Bernanos
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- Its helpful to know the reasons for our faith…it helps us not be so vulnerable to doubt, and it helps us not be so vulnerable to false doctrine. – Holly Ordway
- Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering. – Terry Tempest Williams
- What really arouses indignation against suffering is not suffering as such but the senselessness of suffering… – Friedrich Nietzsche
- The wish to pray is a prayer in itself. – Georges Bernanos
- O miracle-”thus to be able to give [peace] we ourselves do not possess, sweet miracle of our empty hands! – Georges Bernanos
- I have no ambition to change my nature, I merely intend to conquer my dislikes. – Georges Bernanos
- I am not afraid of death. When I have to confront the great reaper, I would like to recall Bernanos’ words- ‘And now , just the two of us!’. – Jean mercure
- We’re never so vulnerable than when we trust someone – but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy. – Frank Crane
- Art goes into the world unarmed, vulnerable to every quirk of fate, and it must survive only by its power to move men not to destroy it. – Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
- There’s this human capacity for joy and endurance, even when things are at their worst. A joy that occurs not despite our suffering, but within it. – Elizabeth Gilbert
- Men define intelligence, men define usefulness, men tell us what is beautiful, men even tell us what is womanly – Sally Kempton
- The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it. – Michel de Montaigne
- Joy is our native conditionLet go all non-joy and there is joy – Ulf Wolf
- Love life. Live your life with joy so you may fill the world with joy. Let no one leave your presence without feeling the joy of life. – Debasish Mridha
- It wasn’t a normal joy, it was a bitter joy, but somehow the bitterness made the joy even more wonderful. – Therese May
- I see what the joy is; it is the joy of always loving, it is the joy of losing my own life in love to others. – Andrew Murray
- Substituting the discount rate for the ever increasing chance of death and a dollar for joy, joy today is worth more than joy tomorrow. – SA Tawks
- Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.-” Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts! – William Shakespeare
- If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men. – Michel de Montaigne
- The joy and smile of even one child is worth more than the prancing intellects of a thousand men, for we are, that we might have joy, and be free. – Bryant McGill
- Never consider another to be the cause of your suffering. Suffering is always the results of one’s own deeds or faults. – SWAMI SHARNANAND JI
- As long as the belief is: we need suffering to grow, the world will be suffering and the belief will be limiting. – Nataa Nuit Pantovi
- …there’s the suffering from love and the suffering from grief – either pain permanently scars the soul… – John Geddes
- You are not suffering yesterday or tomorrow. You are only suffering your memory and your imagination. – Sadghuru
- Some people find God in love; I find God in suffering. I’ve known for some time what my life’s work is, using my hands as tools to relieve suffering. – Kayla Mueller
- Suffering is nothing by itself. But suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift, the most beautiful gift, a token of love. – Mother Teresa
- The suffering of a loved one was in many ways worse than one’s one suffering because it left one feeling so very helpless. – Mary Balogh
- Suffering is not increased by numbers. One body can contain all the suffering the world can feel. – Graham Greene
- Suffering is the greatest treasure on earth; it purifies the soul. In suffering, we learn who our true friend is. – Maria Faustina Kowalska
- Suffering ceases to be suffering when we form a clear picture of it. – Richard Paul Evans
- The only thing suffering teaches us is that we are capable of suffering. – Melvin Jules Bukiet
- Desire is suffering. A simple equation, and a nice catchphrase. But flipped around, it is more troubling: suffering is desire. – Charles Yu
- Suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of scarifice – Viktor E Frankl
- Suffering has many faces. If we discover the roots of one suffering, we are at the same time discovering the roots of others. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- Your suffering only matters if it connects you to the suffering of others, if it heals them too. – Geoffrey Wood
- It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life. – Albert Camus
- Pain and suffering are two completely difference experiences. Pain is unavoidable. Suffering is self-created. – Noah Levine
- We come to the end of suffering, through suffering. – T Scott McLeod
- Grace doesn’t depend on suffering to exist, but where there is suffering you will find grace in many facets and colors. – William Paul Young
- The intensity of Intellectual suffering in Man is same as Emotional suffering in a Woman. – Ramana Pemmaraju