Quotes about Suffering
I am God's wheat and shall be ground by their teeth so that I may become Christ's pure bread.
— Ignatius of Antioch
Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God.
— Sam Storms
Whatsoever God takes away from His children, He either replaces it with a much greater favor or else gives strength to bear it.
— Richard Sibbes
God always seems bigger to those who need him most. And suffering is the tool he uses to help us need him more.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
The crowning experience of all, for the homecoming man, is the wonderful feeling that, after all he has suffered, there is nothing he need fear anymore—except his God.
— Viktor E. Frankl
God wrote a book on suffering, and its name is Jesus.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!"
— Madeleine L'Engle
Christ exposed Himself not only to the unbridled hostility of angry men, but, more significantly, to the unmitigated wrath of God.
— RC Sproul
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
— St. Augustine
Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.
— Ann Voskamp
Suffering is unbearable if you aren't certain that God is for you and with you.
— Timothy Keller
God only allows pain if He's allowing something new to be born.
— Ann Voskamp