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There's nothing like suffering to remind us how not in control we actually are, how little power we ultimately have, and how much we ultimately need God.

Suffering is traumatic and awful and we get angry and we shake our fists at the heavens and we vent and rage and weep. But in the process we discover a new tomorrow, one we never would have imagined otherwise.

Suffering makes a people greater, and we have suffered much. We had a message to give the world, but we were overwhelmed, and the message was cut off in the middle. In time there will be millions of us - becoming stronger and stronger - and we will complete the message.

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

There is some suffering that awaits us all.

When suffering happens, it forces us to confront life in a different way than we normally do.

Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.

The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?

We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.