Quotes about Suffering

A fallen planet is no easy place to live. Ya, but heaven is.

Real love—it's the best, most painful thing God ever did for us.

Saul fell upon his sword to avoid suffering. Jesus stretched himself upon the cross to take away ours. Saul's suicide cheated his enemies. Jesus' sacrifice cheated death.

One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world.

That which should distinguish the suffering of believers from unbelievers is the confidence that our suffering is under the control of an all-powerful and all-loving God. Our suffering has meaning and purpose in God's eternal plan, and He brings or allows to come into our lives only that which is for His glory and our good.

All pain we experience is intended to move us closer to the goal of being holy as He is holy.

To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.

Take Christ in with you under your yoke, and let patience have her perfect work.

We're programmed for suffering, not joy. The masochism is built in at a very early age. You're supposed to work and suffer - and the trouble is: you believe it.

God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever.

Where are the marks of the cross in your life? Are there any points of identification with your Lord? Alas, too many Christians wear medals but carry no scars

If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.