I remembered how often, in deep and solemn prayer, I had told my Heavenly Father I was willing to suffer anything if I could only aid the great cause of emancipation, and the query arose whether this suffering was not the peculiar kind required of me.

The long suffering that followed was a splendid school for the teaching of endurance.

A man's bodily sufferings were no impediment to his making a will; of mental incapacity he had never heard his father accused till the accusation had now been made by his own son.

Nevertheless suffering is a stern fact that will not long permit us to sleep.

Now, even if you suffer somewhat in this life for your sins, that suffering is not punishment, but wholesome chastisement, as when a father chastens the son in whom he delighteth.

On the other hand, suffering inflicted on us through the arbitrary will of another is a peculiarly bitter addition to the pain or injury caused, as it involves the consciousness of another's superiority, whether it be in strength or cunning, as opposed to our own weakness.

Punishment means that the suffering by the victim is the end, and it does not mean that any good will grow out of the suffering.

George Eliot makes Parson Irwine say that "the inward suffering is the worst form of Nemesis."

Suffering and sorrow were aliens from his roof, misery approached not his doors, and Mordaunt had, in fact, been purchased from motives of compassion, which his evident wretchedness, both bodily and mental, had excited; to cure his bodily ills no kindly attention was spared, but vainly Mahommed Ali sought to lessen the load of anguish he saw imprinted on the brow of his Christian captive.

She had sketched two, and, doubtful which to proceed with first, contemplated sending both to an American friend for his decision; but constant suffering stayed her hand.

I knew full well what suffering must have been theirs before the hour arrived when all was to be ended.

Our sufferings, in comparison, are a drop in the ocean....

"Voluntary suffering is not the same thing. . . .

"Sir: The inevitable suffering in store for the wounded, sick, women, and children, in the event that it becomes our duty to reduce the defenses of the walled town in which they are gathered, will, we feel assured, appeal successfully to the sympathies of a general capable of making the determined and prolonged resistance which your excellency has exhibited after the loss of your naval forces and without hope of succor.

Through all this the pioneers found comfort in the thought that their own suffering was the price of immunity from similar hardships their friends at home, in following their trail, would otherwise have had to pay.

Painful as it is to you, my dear Mary, your sufferings may be in a degree a source of mercy to your mother.

The sufferings undergone by men in the Medicine Lodge each year were sacrifices to the Sun.

"Nervous suffering" is a phrase that describes Mrs. Hemans' state of health.

"The suffering which my precious sister has brought upon herself by her connection with the anti-slavery cause, which has been a sorrow of heart to me, is another proof how dangerous it is to slight the clear convictions of truth.

But suffering is a good preparative for pleasure, and there is no sweetner of liberty like previous confinement.

But the suffering and waste of life, apart from the combat, the sickness, the depreciation of vital force, the withering of constitutional energy, and the mortality in camp and fortress, in barrack, tent, and hospital, have not usually been the subjects of such careful observation, nor the grounds of fear to the soldier and of anxiety to those who are interested in his safety.

Unless suffering is the direct and immediate object of life, our existence must entirely fail of its aim.

To the duke, and of course to his courtiers, the girl's suffering and the fate that was in store for her were mere matters of mirth.

A contemporary and disciple of Rousseau, he convinced himself that human suffering was, in the main, the result of the artificial arrangements of society, and inheriting a fortune at an early age he spent large sums in philanthropy.

They alleged that, while the sufferings of Jesus are a compensation for the guilt of the believer and make him innocent, yet this suffices not to give him a title to heavenly glory; for which he must over and above be invested in active righteousness, by all Christ's good works being made over to him.