A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward. Rather than begrudge your problem, explore it. Ponder it. And most of all, use it. Use it to the glory of God.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The reward of suffering is experience.
Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and never can it be eradicated until that lesson is learnt.
Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.
Suffering is part of the divine idea.
Suffering is a kind of ecstasy in a way. Having pain all the time makes me terribly, terribly grateful for every moment I've got.
The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?
When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.
For any sin, we all suffer. That is why our suffering is endless.
The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.
A lot of suffering is just getting rid of dross in yourself, and lingering and hanging in the darkness is often - I say this against myself - a failure of imagination, to imagine the door into the light.
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