Quotes about Suffering
I think the world today is upside down, and is suffering so much, because there is so very little love in the homes and in family life.
— Mother Teresa
It takes courage to live through suffering; and it takes honesty to observe it.
— CS Lewis
The Lord confers great honor on his servants when he brings them suffering.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I see crosses at every turn. My flesh shudders over it, but my heart adores them. Yes, I hail you, crosses little and great, I hail you, and kiss your feet, unworthy of the honor of your shadow.
— Francis de Sales
Hope is lived when it comes alive, when we go outside of ourselves and, in joy and pain take part in the lives of others.
— Jurgen Moltmann
Christianity does not provide the reason for each experience of pain, but it does provide deep resources for actually facing suffering with hope and courage rather than bitterness and despair
— Timothy Keller
If God can bring blessing from the broken body of Jesus and glory from something that's obscene as the cross, He can bring blessing from my problems and my pain and my unanswered prayer.
— Anne Graham Lotz
They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?
— Martin Luther
A nation that destroys its own people is a nation without hope.
— Pope John Paul II
The cross means there is no shipwreck without hope; there is no dark without dawn; nor storm without haven.
— Pope John Paul II
War is and always has been a brutal exercise that destroys lives, families and communities. It is never something for which we hope.
— Rick Warren
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.
— Samuel Johnson