| PAIN See also: Sickness; Suffering;Trials | 痛苦 |
| If anybody is not disturbed by the problem of pain,
it is for one reason of two reasons: either because of hardening of the heart or else
because of softening of the brain. G. A. Studdert Kennedy 如果有人不受痛苦所擾，那原因之一就是：若不是心剛硬就是意志消沈。 |
| God whispers to us in our
pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains; it is his megaphone to
rouse a deaf world. C. S. Lewis 上帝在我們喜樂時對我們低聲細語，在我們良心裡說話，但卻在我們痛苦中對我們叫喊；痛苦是叫醒耳聾世界的擴大器。 |
| The trouble with born-again Christians is that they
are an even bigger pain the second time around. Herb Caen 重生得救基督徒的難題在於在生命的第二回合會遇到更大的痛苦。 |
| One word frees us of all the
weight and pain of life: That word is love. Sophocles 有一個字能夠免去我們的重擔與痛苦：那個字就是愛。 |
| If you are distressed by anything external, the pain
is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to
revoke at any moment. Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (121 AD - 180 AD) 如果你因著外在因素所苦，這樣的痛苦並非出自事情的本身，而是你怎麼看這件事情；因此你擁有可以隨時除去這樣痛苦的能力。 |
| Pain is inevitable;
suffering is optional. 痛楚是無可避免的，受苦是可選擇的。 |
| Time cancels young pain. Euripides (485 BC - 406 BC), Alcestis, 438 B.C. 時間消弭年輕的痛楚。 |
| If we deny love that is
given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will
be empty, our loss greater. 如果我們否認曾賜給我們的愛，如果我們因為害怕痛楚及失去而拒絕去愛，那我們的生命將成為空洞，我們失去的更多。 |
| The world is so constructed, that if you wish to
enjoy its pleasures, you must also endure its pains. Whether you like it or not, you
cannot have one without the other. Swami Brahnmananda 這世界就是如此環環相扣，如果你希望享受樂趣，那你就必須忍受痛楚。無論你喜不喜歡，你不可能要這個不要那個。 |
| No pain, no palm; no thorns,
no throne; no gall, no glory; no cross, no crown. William Penn 沒有痛苦就沒有勝利；沒有荊棘就沒有寶座；沒有屈辱就沒有榮耀；沒有十字架就沒有王冠。 |
| Our goal can only be reached through a vehicle of a
pain, in which we must fervently believe, and upon which we must vigorously act. There is
no other route to success. Stephen A. Brennan 我們的目標只能藉著痛苦的車輛才能達到，在其中我們必須熱切相信並且全力以赴。成功並無其他捷徑。 |
| A wise man will make haste
to forgive, because he knows the full value of time and will not suffer it to pass away in
unnecessary pain. Rambler 聰明人會盡快的赦免饒恕，因為他知道時間的寶貴，不需要浪費在不必要的痛苦之中。 |