Quotes about Suffering

What are these wounds in thine hands?… Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.

For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.

What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces and grind the faces of the poor?

The poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind.

They crucify to themselves the Son of God afresh, and put him to an open shame.

Thou hast showed thy people hard things: thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment.

Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

It is not the punishment but the cause that makes the martyr.

I'm going to give you God's truth, little girl. All men want to do is hurt you. Once you give them your heart, they tear it to shreds. ~Francine Rivers; Redeeming Love

Sometimes God has to destroy in order to save. He has to wound in order to heal.

How many others suffered in silence, too ashamed and too afraid to speak about their pain? The world wouldn't let them grieve for children they had aborted. How could they when the rhetoric said there was no child? How does one grieve what doesn't exist? No one wanted to admit the truth.

I loved her, Lord. I loved her enough to die for her, and she did this to me. Maybe she's beyond redemption. How do you forgive someone who doesn't even care enough to want to be forgiven?