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"Suffering doesn't always mean something's gone wrong; it just means you're living a life." —from the Dear Sugars podcast, Sept. 2, 2017.Quote | By Cheryl Strayed | September 7, 2017 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Acceptance, Balance, Direct Experience, Suffering, Truth
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All great spirituality is about what we do with our pain... By trying to handle all suffering through willpower, denial, medication, or even therapy, we have forgotten something that should be obvious: we do not handle suffering; suffering handles us in deep and mysterious ways that ironically...Quote | By Richard Rohr | May 23, 2016 | From WorshipWebTagged as: 4th Principle (Truth & Meaning), Christianity, Despair, Meaning, Mystery, Pain, Spiritual Practice, Spirituality, Suffering
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"We hold on to hell because when we discard it we glimpse through the clearing smoke a God who is too complicated for us."...Quote | By Robert Walsh | January 10, 2016 | From WorshipWebTagged as: God, Suffering, Unitarian Universalism
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I have learned to trust those who are witnesses rather than gurus, those who express their confusion as well as their knowledge, and those who share their suffering along with their joy.Quote | By David O. Rankin | May 28, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Humility, Joy, Suffering, Trust, Vulnerability, Wisdom
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My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, from the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer; and by night, but find no rest.Quote | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Despair, Hope, Pain, Suffering
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I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that cruelty too will end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.Quote | By Anne Frank | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Brokenness, History, Hope, Suffering, Transcendence
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"Put up at the moment of greatest suffering a prayer, not for thy own escape, but for the enfranchisement of some being dear to thee, and the sovereign spirit will accept thy ransom."...Quote | By Thomas Wentworth Higginson | January 21, 2015 | From WorshipWebTagged as: Faith, History, Hope, Spiritual Practice, Suffering
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