Quotes about Suffering
In each of us, there is an innate ability to create joy out of suffering, to find hope in the most hopeless of situations, and to heal any relationship in need of healing.
— Desmond Tutu
I realize now that God has been with me every step of my life - through the suffering.
— Jeremy Camp
God does not suffer out of deficiency of being, like created beings. To this extent he is 'apathetic'. But he suffers from the love which is the superabundance and overflowing of his being. In so far he is 'pathetic'.
— Jurgen Moltmann
God does not suffer out of deficiency of being, like created beings. But he does suffer from his love, which is the overflowing superabundance of his being. And in this sense he can suffer.
— Jurgen Moltmann
Jesus didn't just wear a cross around his neck, he carried it on his back.
— J. John
Many people regard leaders as natually gifted with intellect, personal forcefulness, and enthusiasm. Such qualities certainly enhance leadership potential, but they do not define the spiritual leader. True leaders must be willing to suffer for the sake of objectives great enough to demand their wholehearted obedience. Spiritual leaders are not elected, appointed, or created by synods or churchly assemblies. God alone makes them.
— J. Oswald Sanders
Serving and suffering are paired in the teaching and life of our Lord. One does not come without the other. And what servant is greater than The Lord?
— J. Oswald Sanders
The violent rioting that is sometimes now being called protesting - it makes the emotions so high that you almost cannot see the insults and injuries that are the people are suffering.
— Alveda King
Victory over our hurts and pain is not found by delving deeper into our wounds, but by clinging to the wounds of Jesus.
— Louie Giglio
When we suffer, it's always for somebody's saving—that issue is always hanging in the balance. It's not all about me; it's all about Jesus becoming known in this broken world.
— Louie Giglio
ways. Most often, the trials we are walking through today are preparing us for a greater role in God's unfolding story.
— Louie Giglio
We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca