He tried to make sense of it, not through the mind-set of the hijackers, whom he said he could not understand, but the suffering endured by innocents.
Why endure the hardship and suffering of this trek into unknown regions if we go only to meet death at the end?
I wondered if she knew that nothing would grieve me more than knowing Hyacinthe's suffering endured unnecessarily, and I myself the cause of it.
Our many visits to hospitals have shown us what appalling handicaps and sufferings some people endure.
And to think that where there was no such thing as time I might easily imagine that my suffering was enduring for months before death finally released me!
Thus we thought in our folly, little guessing what lay before us, what terrors and weary suffering we must endure before we stood at length beneath the shadow of the Symbol of Life.
There is no doubt that the sufferings endured by the Jews are also for the Catholic Church a motive of sincere sorrow, especially when one thinks of the indifference and sometimes resentment which, in particular historical circumstances, have divided Jews and Christians.
However deplorable may have been the loss of life, and the sufferings endured by the innocent and helpless, the result was to put a final and effectual end to the struggle between the contending clans.
I am content to suffer alone while my sufferings shall endure; when I die, I am well satisfied that abhorrence and opprobrium should load my memory.
According to the Muslim Aid website they work across Africa, Asia, Europe and strive to help the poor overcome the suffering endured due to natural disasters and lack of life's basic necessities.