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...
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...
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...
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...
The Red Lion was a four-ale bar with a handful of lowbrowed sons of toil who looked as though they...
What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you...
Keep in mind that when we talk of a great painting we are not really talking about anything great....
Read me back the last line. 'Read me back the last line,' read back the corporal who could take...
Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...
It isn't even good grammar. What the hell does it mean when they disappear somebody?
Inscribed on the back was a line from Virgil in Latin: Audentes fortuna juvat. Fortune favors the...
Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed. Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been...
The rain was pattering hypnotically on the plane's exterior.