Quotes about Suffering
Our afflictions would trouble us much less if we knew God's reason for sending them.
— Billy Graham
If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it would mean that the essence of 'humanness' would be destroyed. We would become robots.
— Billy Graham
Losses and crosses are heavy to bear; but when our hearts are right with God, it is wonderful how easy the yoke becomes.
— Charles Spurgeon
Ah! Justice of our God! Who else could stow Such travails new and pains as met my glance!
— Dante Alighieri
Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?'
— Tony Campolo
God is inviting you today to appropriately grieve your pains and losses and to acknowledge the world is seriously broken.
— Tullian Tchividjian
I call God long-suffering and patient precisely because He permits evil in the world. I know that He has no evil in Him and yet if there is evil, He is the author of it and yet untouched by it.
— Mahatma Gandhi
My religion says that only he who is prepared to suffer can pray to God.
— Mahatma Gandhi
To bear all kinds of tortures without a murmur of resentment is not possible for a human being without the strength that comes from God.
— Mahatma Gandhi
I know that God is not going to willfully hurt us. Why there is suffering is the business of the Lord, but He never seems to give us more than we can bear.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
I don't believe in the end that God gave me cancer, but He certainly could have stopped it and didn't.
— Matt Chandler
The Bible teaches us that God does not cause pain, but that He uses pain and evil to advance His cause and shape His servants.
— Max Lucado