Henry Ward Beecher Quotes About Suffering
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There is no part of government which cannot better suffer derangement than the ballot. If you strike the ballot with disease, it is heart disease.
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We are never ripe till we have been made so by suffering.
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Every boy wants someone older than himself to whom he may go in moods of confidence and yearning. The neglect of this child's want by grown people . . . is a fertile source of suffering.
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Suffering well borne is better than suffering removed.
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Half the spiritual difficulties that men and women suffer arise from a morbid state of health.
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Suffering is part of the divine idea.
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We never know how much one loves till we know how much he is willing to endure and suffer for us; and it is the suffering element that measures love. The characters that are great must, of necessity, be characters that shall be willing, patient and strong to endure for others. To hold our nature in the willing service of another is the divine idea of manhood, of the human character.
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