God can’t save any of us because it’s inelegant. Elegance is more important than suffering. That’s His design.
No matter how bad things get, the true test is how we choose to respond to the pain we suffer, or inflict.
There are two kinds of pain: the sort of pain that makes you strong, or useless pain. The sort of pain that’s only suffering. I have no patience for useless things.
Life is about suffering. There’s no escape from it. That’s the truth. What’s important is how we deal with suffering, how we deal with the truth.
When you’re suffering, that’s when you’re most real.
Suffering is what takes place while other people are eating.
He’s got a hard-on for mass murder and giving kids cancer, and his big old answer to the existential clusterf*** that is humanity, is to nail his own bleeding son to a plank.[about God]
All sorrows can be borne if you put them in a story.
Suffering breeds compassion.
Pain and suffering. Music to my ears.
Only a mother can understand what she suffers for her future child.
Little empathy goes a long way with those suffering in real pain.[to Dennis]
