Quotes about Suffering
It's good to suffer. Dont complain. Bear, bow, accept - and be grateful that God has made you suffer. For this makes you better than the people who are laughing and happy.
— Ayn Rand
We don't need answers and explanations as much as we need God's presence in and through the suffering.
— Tullian Tchividjian
Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from God's suffering for us. The way out of our loss and hurt is in and through.
— Henri Nouwen
Suffering is arguably God's choicest tool in shaping the character of Christ in us.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; if He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him.
— Oswald Chambers
Jesus' response to suffering people and to "nobodies" provides a glimpse into the heart of God. God is not the unmoved Absolute, but rather the Loving One who draws near.
— Philip Yancey
The deepest level of worship is praising God inspite of pain, trusting Him during a trial, surrendering while suffering, and loving Him when He seems distant.
— Rick Warren
Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with 'ashes.
— Elisabeth Elliot
When pain and suffering strike, our faith is well founded if it is standing on the promises of God. For all of God's promises have strong confirmation in Christ.
— John Calvin
When we hurt, God doesn't always give us lots of words; he gives us the Word; the Word made flesh who is intimately acquainted with our grief and suffering. That's what helps the most.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
I have tried and I cannot find, either in scripture or in history, a strong-willed individual whom God used greatly until He allowed them to be hurt deeply.
— Charles Swindoll
"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.
— Dallas Willard