George Santayana Quotes

Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.

Early on in my life, I had a broken soul. I was abused by my father, abandoned by my mother and ended up in a destructive first marriage. By the time I was 23, I was broken in my soul. I didn't know how to think right. I felt wrong about everything. But God stepped into my life, and I came out on the other side and didn't even smell like smoke.

The pain is necessary. Sometimes pain is the teacher we require, a hidden gift of healing and hope.

Through love, all pain will turn to medicine.

I can trust in Jesus. And this Gospel that we preach does work. So those who are hurting and suffering today, hang in there. The sun will shine again.

Joy always came after pain.

There is and must be a remedy for all Evils.

I have been drawn to stories that are attempting to turn suffering into beauty.

Turn away. From the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and look at the light.

What once seemed such a curse has become a blessing. All the agony that threatened to destroy my life now seems like the fertile ground for greater trust, stronger hope, and deeper love.

I love seeing people come out of darkness.

Pain and suffering, they are a secret. Kindness and love, they are a secret. But I have learned that kindness and love can pay for pain and suffering.

This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold.

There is healing in the bitter cup.

It's a long life, sweetheart, and time heals all wounds.

Nobody will protect you from your suffering. You can't cry it away or eat it away or starve it away or walk it away or punch it away or even therapy it away. It's just there, and you have to survive it. You have to endure it. You have to live through it and love it and move on and be better for it and run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal.

Somehow the pain, the losses, the hurt, the bad, God is able to transform these into something they could have never been, icons and monuments of grace and love. It is the deep mystery how wounds and scars can become precious, or a ravaging and terrifying cross the essential symbol of relentless affection.” “Is it worth it?” whispered Tony. “Wrong question, son. There is no ‘it.’ The question is and has always been, ‘Are you worth it?’ and the answer is and always, ‘Yes!’

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

God will make right all that is wrong, He will take away the lingering effect of sin and what's not right in our lives. He knows how painful life in this world can be.

Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

It is by suffering that human beings become angels.

This life is a hospital in which every patient is possessed with a desire to change his bed.

Human misery is too great for men to do without faith.

The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.