Human Suffering

Famous quotes containing the words human and/or suffering:

    “Get behind me, Satan! You are a stumbling block to me; for you are setting your mind not on divine things but on human things.”
    —Bible: New Testament, Matthew 16:23.

    Jesus to Peter.

    “Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches him this.”
    —Simone Weil (1909–1943)