The answer is that their confidence was actually in God, not in their limited understanding of what they thought he would do. They had inner assurance that God would rescue them. However, they were...

If there was a God, he'd guide the winds, let them blow for me so that, with a tug of my string, I'd cut loose my pain, my longing.

As long as you think that the cause of your problem is "out there" - as long as you think that anyone or anything is responsible for your suffering - the situation is hopeless. It means that you are...

Our tendency in the midst of suffering is to turn on God. To get angry and bitter and shake our fist at the sky and say, God, you don't know what it's like! You don't understand! You have no idea what...

his legs where the bones had been broken

we can safely conclude that God ordained that Job's camels be stolen. That was God's providential plan. But God's purpose was to vindicate Job from the unrighteous accusations of Satan, as well as to...

There are times when we suffer innocently at other people's hands. When that occurs, we are victims of injustice. But that injustice happens on a horizontal plane. No one ever suffers injustice on the...

Buddha says there are two kinds of suffering: the kind that leads to more suffering and the kind that brings an end to suffering.

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering

Without a word or hesitation, Pain took the mop from Nick. Suffering moved to pick up glass.Wow. Where have you two been all my life?Pain quirked and eyebrow as he mopped the floor.Walking hand in...

Despite the loss they were suffering, they'd both relaxed - as people do when they realize they've run out of chances for happiness

The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...

One does not learn to suffer less but to dodge pain.

Suffering so someone else didn't have to suffer. Sacrificing your body for someone else's well being.

Was there a language of loss? Did everyone who suffered speak a different dialect?

I don't understand why it's a sin if you love something and want to keep it from having to suffer.

I want an infinitely blank book and the rest of time.

There is the solitude of suffering, when you go through darkness that is lonely, intense, and terrible. Words become powerless to express your pain; what others hear from your words is so distant and...

Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can.

She reminded him of {...} all the shivering, stupefying misery in a world that never yet had provided enough heat and food and justice for all but an ingenious and unscrupulous handful. What a lousy...