Quotes about Suffering

Much of what we call evil is due entirely to the way men take the phenomenon. It can so often be converted into a bracing and tonic good by a simple change of the sufferer's inner attitude from one of fear to one of fight; its string can so often depart and turn into a relish when, after vainly seeking to shun it, we agree to face about and bear it...

If the atheist believes that suffering is bad or ought not to be, then he's making moral judgments that are possible only if God exists.

Paradoxically, then, even though the problem of suffering is the greatest objection to the existence of God, at the end of the day God is the only solution to the problem of suffering. If God does not exist, then we are locked without hope in a world filled with pointless and unredeemed suffering

One rabbi who survived the camp summed it up well when he said that at Auschwitz it was as though there existed a world in which all the Ten Commandments were reversed. Mankind had never seen such a hell.

Christianity entails doctrines that increase the probability of the coexistence of God and suffering.

It is good for me to be afflicted that I may die wholly to this world and all that is in it.

Storms are not punishment for lack of obedience; oftentimes they are the result of obedience!

The strangest disease I have seen in this country seems really to be broken-heartedness, and it attacks free men who have been captured and made slaves. My attention was drawn to it when the elder brother of Syde bin Habib was killed in Rua by a night attack, from a spear being pitched through his tent into his side. Syde then vowed vengeance for the blood of his brother, and assaulted all he could find, killing the elders, and making the young men captives. He

I admit that I deserve death and hell, what of it? For I know One who suffered and made satisfaction on my behalf. His name is Jesus Christ, Son of God, and where He is there I shall be also!

Comfort is the god of our generation, so suffering is seen as a problem to be solved, and not a providence from God.

God can take the good, bad and the bitter and create a masterpiece called your destiny.

God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him.