Quotes about Suffering
We're not the paragons of virtue that we'd all like to think we are. And so, to shatter that myth, God will use suffering to expose the stuff of which we're made.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.
— DA Carson
God has never deserted our people. Through the ages Jews have had to suffer, but through the ages they've gone on living, and the centuries of suffering have only made them stronger.
— Anne Frank
If yuh don't know God yuh goin' suffer and dead! No God Noh Partial, regardless weh yuh deh pon earth.
— Bob Marley
Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless.
— CS Lewis
God uses prisons to train people for future roles of leadership or martyrdom.
— Charles Colson
God is so committed to your ultimate joy that he was willing to plunge into the greatest depths of suffering himself for you.
— Timothy Keller
God takes our misery and suffering so seriously that he was willing to take it on himself.
— Timothy Keller
God so loved us and hates suffering that he was willing to come down and get involved in it.
— Timothy Keller
Just because you can't see or imagine a good reason why God might allow something to happen doesn't mean there can't be one.
— Timothy Keller
Jesus is the ultimate Job, the only truly innocent sufferer.
— Timothy Keller
Suffering is actually at the heart of the Christian story.
— Timothy Keller