Quotes about Suffering

I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.

It's nice to be happy. But the meaning of life is meaning - what's the impact you're having on the world. Suffering to accomplish that is a perfectly fine thing.

In the secular view, suffering is never seen as a meaningful part of life but only as an interruption.

Your pain could be God prying open your life and heart to remove a gift of His that you've been on to more dearly than Him.

There was no freedom in life, and certainly there was none in death.

This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.

From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.

However much we do to avoid them, we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified.

There's nothing like suffering to reveal how small and needy you are. Pain has the remarkable capacity to reveal the weakness of the things you're leaning on to make life worth living.

A biblical theology of persecution creates a framework for understanding God's sovereign purpose in allowing the evil dominions of darkness to inflict suffering on His children.

it's not enough for Christians merely to recognize that the world isn't what it ought to be and that people are suffering in ways they shouldn't have to suffer." Instead, our "sorrow and indignation" should prompt us to act in ways that "subvert" that brokenness.

Feed him [Micajah] with bread of affliction, and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.