Quotes about Suffering
God chooses what we go through; we choose how we go through it.
— John Maxwell
The Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or an eagle, but a slaughtered lamb.
— Shane Claiborne
Even if we may not always understand why God allows certain things to happen to us, we can know He is able to bring good out of evil, and triumph out of suffering.
— Billy Graham
I would not trade the difficult years for all the prosperity in the world. God knows what each one of us must suffer in order to be conformed to the image of Christ.
— Paul Washer
God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
— Elisabeth Elliot
What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.
— Dorothy Sayers
God's design in our pain enables us to look back and say: He loves me enough to take me where I would have never wanted to go in order to produce in me what I never could have achieved on my own.
— Paul David Tripp
Christians are not so much in danger when they are persecuted as when they are admired.
— Charles Spurgeon
The readiest way to escape from our sufferings is, to be willing they should endure as long as God pleases.
— John Wesley
It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.
— CS Lewis
We cannot understand the meaning of many trials; God does not explain them. To explain a trial would be to destroy its object, which is that of calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience.
— Alfred Edersheim
What man, if he were God, would humble himself to lie in the feedbox of a donkey or to hang upon a cross?
— Martin Luther