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  • Etymologically, 'patient' means sufferer.

  • I have, by God’s grace, learned as a member of the Christian community what is the nature of God’s mercy, which does not leave me to overcome my sin by my own effort, so I have something to say to the fellow-sufferer who does not know where to look for hope. And what I have to say depends utterly on my willingness not to let go of that awareness of myself that reminds me where I start each day—not as a finished saint but as a needy person still struggling to grow.

    Rowan Williams (2007). “Where God Happens: Discovering Christ in One Another”, p.31, Shambhala Publications
  • A crowd of fellow-sufferers is a miserable kind of comfort.

    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 124-25, Consol. ad Marc.', 12, 5, 1922.
  • The incurable sufferer is given very little opportunity to be proud of his suffering and to consider it ennobling rather than degrading" so that "he is not only unhappy, but also ashamed of being unhappy.

    Viktor E. Frankl (2006). “Man's Search for Meaning”, p.114, Beacon Press
  • There are some chagrins of the heart which a friend ought to try to console without betraying a knowledge of their existence, as there are physical maladies which a physician ought to seek to heal without letting the sufferer know that he has discovered their extent.

  • Grief, of course, is not something that operates according to a specific time frame, and it seems cold to suggest otherwise. Yet when we do not grasp that God is present in pain, we eventually insist on victory or, worse, blame the sufferer for not "getting over it" fast enough. This is more than a failure to extend compassion; it's an exercise in cruelty.

    Pain   Grief   Exercise  
    Tullian Tchividjian (2012). “Glorious Ruin: How Suffering Sets You Free”, p.77, David C Cook
  • In grief, words are a poor consolation - silence and agonizing tears are all that is left the sufferer.

    Grief   Silence   Tears  
  • Money often determines not only who gets elected, but what gets done. Which voices do lawmakers listen to, the banks or home owners, coal companies, or asthma sufferers, the CEOs or the unemployed?

    Home   Voice   Coal  
    "Occupy Congress" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2011.
  • The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have the capacity do not possess it.

    Simone Weil (2009). “Waiting on God (Routledge Revivals)”, p.36, Routledge
  • love is so very subtle an essence, such an indefinable metaphysical marvel, that its due force, though very cruelly felt by the sufferer himself, is never clearly understood by those who look on at its torments and wonder why he takes the common fever so badly.

    Love Is   Essence   Fever  
    Mary Elizabeth Braddon (2015). “Lady Audley's Secret”, p.344, Sheba Blake Publishing
  • For sufferers it is sweet to know before-hand clearly the pain that still remains for them.

    Sweet   Pain   Hands  
    Aeschylus (1956). “Aeschylus: The suppliant maidens, The Persians, translated by S. G. Benardete. Seven against Thebes, Prometheus bound, translated by D. Grene”
  • Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.

    Real   Damage   Faults  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.301, Library of America
  • Every sufferer who bears pain, or slander, or loss, or personal unkindness for Christ’s sake, is filling up that amount of suffering which is necessary to the bringing together of the whole body of Christ, and the upbuilding of His elect Church.

    Pain   Loss   Filling Up  
  • It is the spectators, the people who are outside, looking at the tragedy, from whose ranks the skeptics come; it is not those who are actually in the arena and who know suffering from the inside. Indeed, the fact is that it is the world's greatest sufferers who have produced the most shining examples of unconquerable faith.

  • 'T is hers to pluck the amaranthine flower Of faith, and round the sufferer's temples bind Wreaths that endure affliction's heaviest shower, And do not shrink from sorrow's keenest wind.

    Faith   Flower   Wind  
    William Wordsworth (1851). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth ...”, p.180
  • In a typical mental health catch-22, the alienating nature of depression tends to keep its sufferers from finding their way to the very support groups that might help them.

  • That this is the source of our fellow-feeling for the misery of others, that it is by changing places in fancy with the sufferer, that we come either to conceive or to be affected by what he feels, may be demonstrated by many obvious observations, if it should not be thought sufficiently evident of itself. When we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall upon the leg or arm of another person, we naturally shrink and draw back our own leg or our own arm; and when it does fall, we feel it in some measure, and are hurt by it as well as the sufferer.

    Hurt   Fall   Empathy  
    Adam Smith (2016). “The Essays on Philosophical Subjects: the Great Master”, p.7, VM eBooks
  • No one was ever called by God to greater suffering than God's only begotten Son.

    Son   Suffering   Greater  
  • Dewey repudiated what he called militant atheism. He felt that people have innate religious qualities, such as compassion for sufferers, an urge to improve life, and a sense of awe before the mysteries of existence. However, by the standards of conventional religion, Dewey was an atheist.

  • While we allow the inhabitants of imaginary remote corners the authenticity of savages or sufferers, we rarely suppose them to possess the authenticity of complex, sophisticated perceptions.

  • love, which is a madness, and a scourge, and a fever, and a delusion, and a snare, is also a mystery, and very imperfectly understood by everyone except the individual sufferer who writhes under its tortures.

    Fever   Mystery   Madness  
    Mary Elizabeth Braddon (2009). “Lady Audley's Secret”, p.594, The Floating Press
  • I think that the kinds of stereotypes that people have about Haitians or about HIV sufferers exist because we don't realize that these are our brothers, our sisters, our aunts and uncles, our neighbors. They are us. And I don't mean that in some metaphorical sense. They are literally us.

    Brother   Uncles   Mean  
    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • It’s not the body that people love, but the soul. The body is a temporary vehicle. Without the soul, the body is like a car without a driver. I see through my eyes, smell through my nose, taste through my tongue, hear through my ears, feel through my skin, think through my brain, and love through my heart. But who am I? Who is the witness, enjoyer and sufferer that activates my body?

    Eye   Heart   Thinking  
    Radhanath Swami (2016). “The Journey Home”, p.150, Simon and Schuster
  • The second class of evils comprises such evils as people cause to each other, when, e.g. , some of them use their strength against others. These evils are more numerous than those of the first kind... they likewise originate in ourselves, though the sufferer himself cannot avert them.

    Class   People   Evil  
    Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.1036, Moses Maimonides
  • What does the divine sufferer (Jesus) demand from us? Only our faith, our love, our grateful praise, our consecrated hearts and lives. Is that too much to ask?

    Jesus   Grateful   Heart  
    Billy Graham (2010). “Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional”, Thomas Nelson Inc
  • Kindness is the visible expression of a feeling and merciful heart; it is the going forth of a tender and susceptible mind; it claims kindred with the human race; it is all ear to listen-all heart to feel-all eye to examine and to weep-all hand and foot to relieve; it invites the sufferer with kind words, and sends him not empty away.

    Kindness   Heart   Eye  
    John Angell James (1828). “Christian charity explained; or, The influence of religion upon temper stated; in an exposition of the thirteenth chapter of the first Epistle to the Corinthians”, p.95
  • Animals are, like us, endangered species on an endangered planet, and we are the ones who are endangering them, it, and ourselves. They are innocent sufferers in a hell of our making.

    Animal   Hell   Innocent  
    Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson (1995). “When Elephants Weep: The Emotional Lives of Animals”, Doubleday
  • Children are the greatest sufferers from outgrown theologies.

    Luther Burbank (1927). “My Beliefs”
  • When the sufferers learn to think, then the thinkers will learn to suffer.

  • I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.

    Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.94, Penguin
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