1. What is suffering?

2. Dictionary:
suffering is: to undergo, be subjected to, or endure (pain, distress, injury, loss, or anything unpleasant)

3. Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable
Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals
Martin Luther King, Jr.

4. To live is to suffer, to survive is to find some meaning in the suffering. Friedrich Nietzsche

5. Without pain, there would be no suffering, without suffering we would never learn from over mistakes. To make it right, pain and suffering is the key to all windows, without it, there is no way of life. Angelina Jolie

6. The reward of suffering is experience. Harry S. Truman

7. Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can
Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can. Princess Diana

8. We create our own unhappiness
We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it. Willie Nelson

9. Romans 5:3-4 We can rejoice, too, when we run into problems and trials, for we know that they help us develop endurance. 4 And endurance develops strength of character, and character strengthens our confident hope of salvation.

11. 2 Corinthians 1:3-7 (page 883)
All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. God is our merciful Father and the source of all comfort.

12. 4 He comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others
4 He comforts us in all our troubles so that we can comfort others. When they are troubled, we will be able to give them the same comfort God has given us.

13. 5 For the more we suffer for Christ, the more God will shower us with his comfort through Christ.