Suffering/religion

Famous quotes containing the words suffering and/or religion:

“We learn resignation not by our own suffering, but by the suffering of others.”
—W. Somerset Maugham (1874–1965)

“Both Socrates and Jesus were outstanding teachers; both of them urged and practiced great simplicity of life; both were regarded as traitors to the religion of their community; neither of them wrote anything; both of them were executed; and both have become the subject of traditions that are difficult or impossible to harmonize.”
—Jaroslav Pelikan (b. 1932)