Quotes about Suffering
God allows hardship in our lives so that our beliefs-those handholds of faith in a troubled world-will became more and more real to us and less and less theory.
— Greg Laurie
When we learn to move through suffering, rather than avoid it, then we greet it differently. We become willing to let it teach us. We even begin to see how God can use it for some larger end.
— Henri Nouwen
What punishments of God are not gifts?
— JRR Tolkien
The other gods were strong; but thou wast weak; they rode, but thou didst stumble to a throne; But to our wounds only God's wounds can speak, And not a god has wounds, but thou alone.
— John Stott
The moment passed — but the darkness is so dark, and the pain is so painful. — But I accept whatever He gives and I give whatever He takes.
— Mother Teresa
Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.
— RC Sproul
We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
— Barbara Johnson
Without our suffering, our work would simply be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption.
— Mother Teresa
Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.
— CS Lewis
Hell is full of good wishes or desires.
— Bernard of Clairvaux
No one whose first concern is feeling good can be a disciple. We are called to carry a cross and to glorify God.
— Elisabeth Elliot
In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason.
— Ernest Hemingway