SUFFERING
One must not think that a person who is suffering is not praying. He is offering up his sufferings to God, and many a time he is praying much more truly than one who goes away by himself and meditates his head off, and, if he has squeezed out a few tears, thinks that is prayer.
- St. Teresa of Avila
Blessed be He, Who came into the world for no other purpose than to suffer.
- St. Teresa of Avila
Suffering is a great favor. Remember that everything soon comes to an end ... and take courage. Think of how our gain is eternal.
- St. Teresa of Avila
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
- St. Augustine of Hippo
The more the wicked abound, so much the more must we suffer with them in patience; for on the threshing floor few are the grains carried into the barns, but high are the piles of chaff burned with fire.
- Pope St. Gregory the Great
Nothing afflicts the heart of Jesus so much as to see all His sufferings of no avail to so many.
- St. John Mary Vianney
One day, I saw two roads. One was broad, covered with sand and flowers, full of joy, music and all sorts of pleasures. People walked along it, dancing and enjoying themselves. They reached the end of the road without realizing it. And at the end of the road there was a horrible precipice; that is, the abyss of hell. The souls fell blindly into it; as they walked, so they fell. And there numbers were so great that it was impossible to count them. And I saw the other road, or rather, a path, for it was narrow and strewn with thorns and rocks; and the people who walked along it had tears in their eyes, and all kinds of suffering befell them. Some fell down upon the rocks, but stood up immediately and went on. At the end of the road there was a magnificent garden filled with all sorts of happiness, and all these souls entered there. At the very first instant they forgot all their sufferings.
- St. Maria Faustina Kowalska
When you feel the assaults of passion and anger, then is the
time to be silent as Jesus was silent in the midst of His ignominies
and sufferings.
- St. Paul of the Cross
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