Quotes about Suffering
My mother believed he would be healed. She counted on God, and the worst thing happened. The impact of that error in theology, in thinking, impacted my life from the very beginning.
— Philip Yancey
You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.
— Joyce Meyer
When our trials come, when we feel pain and suffering, when our tears flow again, it is our joy and comfort to lift our faces heavenward and to go on, standing on the promises of God.
— WA Criswell
The Author's Way of sending forth his Second Part of the Pilgrim. Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.
— John Bunyan
Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself
— CS Lewis
Suffering by nature or chance never seems so painful as suffering inflicted on us by the arbitrary will of another.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Patience is bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.
— Aristotle
He who suffers in patience, surfers less and saves his soul. He who suffers impatiently, suffers more and loses his soul.
— Alphonsus Liguori
Show yourself a Christian by suffering without murmuring. In patience possess your soul - they lose nothing who gain Christ.
— Samuel Rutherford
How should thy patience be crowned in heaven if none adversity should befall to thee in earth? If thou wilt suffer none adversity how mayest thou be the friend of Christ?
— Thomas a Kempis
The wicked exist in this world either to be converted or that through them the good may exercise patience.
— St. Augustine
But pain is perfect misery, the worst of evils, and excessive, overturns all patience.
— John Milton