Anne Rice Quotes

Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand the suffering anymore.

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.

' Torn' is hopeful. It's a book that meets you in your pain and shows you how to move forward with life and in your walk with God.

With every anguish of our earthly part The spirit's sight grows clearer.

Genuine transcendence doesn't just look away from human suffering and say, "I am at peace, so I'm at the mountaintop." Genuine transcendence looks human suffering in the eye and attains peace because of a faith in things unseen.

It's the self that suffers, and there's a place where the self--ceases. I don't know how to say it. But I believe that the reality--the truth that I recognize in suffering as I don't in comfort and happiness--that the reality of pain is not pain. If you can get through it. If you can endure it all the way.

The next time you are called to suffer, pay attention. It may be the closest you'll ever get to God.

It is when we love the other, the enemy, that we obtain from God the key to an understanding of who He is, and who we are.

When we shall come home, and enter into the possession of our Brother's fair kingdom, and when our heads shall find the weight of the eternal crown of glory, then we shall look back to pains and sufferings and then we will see life and sorrow to be less than one step or stride from a prison to glory. Our little inch of time-suffering is not worthy of our first night's welcome-home to heaven.

Sorrow is Mount Sinai. If one will, one may go up and talk with God, face to face.

It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God.

It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until He has hurt him deeply.

Some scars never heal. And he sounds like he has a lot of them.' 'But Christ had scars too, even on His risen Body. Wounds in this life become glory in the next.

I hate all pain, Given or received; we have enough within us The meanest vassal as the loftiest monarch, Not to add to each other's natural burden Of mortal misery.

Like Buddha under the Bo tree, Jesus, on his tree, has his eyes closed too. The difference is this. The pain and sadness of the world that Buddha's eyes close out is the pain and sadness of the world that the eyes of Jesus close in.

Sorrow spares no one, and scars respect no person.

Every psychic advance of man arises from the suffering of the soul.

One way you can get really close to God is to sin as hard as you can.

Most spiritual experiences begin with suffering. They begin with groundlessness. They begin when the rug has been pulled out from under us.

Nature, and the natural human condition, generates tremendous suffering. We have the means to overcome that, and we should deploy it.

Suffering cracks open the shell of ego, and then comes a point when it has served its purpose. Suffering is necessary until you realize it is unnecessary.

Remember, the first road to God is prayer, the second is joy.

He who is persistent will realize God. So try your best to make meditation a regular experience in your life.

Overcome any bitterness that may have come because you were not up to the magnitude of the pain entrusted to you. Like the mother of the world who carries the pain of the world in her heart, you are sharing in a certain measure of that cosmic pain, and are called upon to meet it in joy instead of self pity.

Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ