WHY DOES GOD ALLOW SO MUCH SUFFERING?

Here are some quotes to chew on while considering this question:

Without health, life is not life; it is only a state of langour and suffering - an image of death. ~Buddha
 

We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival. ~Winston Churchill
 

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.
 

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

Rejoicing in our joy, not suffering over our suffering, makes someone a friend. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
 

Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seared with scars. ~Khalil Gibran
 

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. ~Aristotle
 

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice. ~Plato
 

Absence and death are the same - only that in death there is no suffering. ~Theodore Roosevelt
 

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. ~Helen Keller
 

Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. ~Helen Keller
 

We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love. ~Sigmund Freud
 

The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism. ~Albert Camus
 

Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon. ~Woody Allen
 

I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. ~Anais Nin
 

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind. ~Bertrand Russell
 

Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise. ~George Orwell

Do any of these quotes sound reasonable to you?  Speak to you?  Which one(s) do you like the best? 

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