Quotes About Suffering

Christ was not crucified so that we wouldn't have to be. He was crucified so we could be crucified with him.

Any voice that promises total exemption from suffering and failure is most certainly not God's voice. In recent years innumerable spokespeople for God have offered ways we can use God and his Bible as guarantees of health, success and wealth.

Life in general can carry on within limits even though some of its specific needs are not adequately met. A plant or animal without the appropriate food, light, or space may lead a weakened and deformed existence, but one that is still a life. Human life is not what it could be, though it is still here, still going on. But the question is, what is human life being cut off from to leave it in such a sad and depleted condition?

Similarly, unless we suffer from a remarkably restricted range of acquaintances, we all know that there are people who please God and have his blessing without being poor, hungry, grief-stricken, or persecuted. They

Keep in mind that God did not say that Job was wrong in what he said, but that he did not understand what he was saying.

There is no indication anywhere in the Scriptures that Jesus was afraid to suffer and die. He was not trying to avoid the cross. He was overcoming Satan.

The blessedness was not in their condition of being poor, mournful, or disrespected. They were blessed because they could enter the kingdom, and to be in the kingdom means to be blessed no matter what else happens. They can rest in that. Their future in God is secured, and their present condition redeemed. Forever. No matter what.

When pain lumbers through the front door, squats down in the middle of your life, and makes itself at home day after day, year after year, it can make you choke. It can make you angry at God.

Love is not blood and suffering. Love is not murdering your son to appease your own vanity. Love is not hatred or wrath, consigning billions of people to eternal torture because they have offended your fragile ego or disobeyed your rules. Love is not obedience, conformity or submission. It is a counterfeit love that is contingent upon authority, punishment or reward. True love is respect and admiration, compassion and kindness, freely given by a healthy, unafraid human being.

It has always been this way. Death is followed by birth. To reach paradise, man must pass through inferno. - Bertrand Zobrist

Nothing activates adrenaline production like pain. - Dr. Sienna Brooks

Death is only a byproduct of terrorism.

The measure of your faith is the measure of the pain you can endure.

The man now retrieved a linen cloth and stuffed it deep into Katherine's mouth. "Death," he whispered to her, "should be a quiet thing.

The Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away.

Fate had cruel timing.

emotionless tone hurting as much as the news

Nothing captured human interest like human tragedy

Some must die that others may live.

The Divine Comedy.

Martyrdom is at the heart of all religion.

The savageness of the cancer was rivaled only by the brutality of the chemotherapy. She was left a ravaged skeleton.

en un embudo subterráneo de sufrimiento; un desolador paisaje de fuego, azufre, aguas residuales, monstruos y el mismísimo Satán en su centro. En

Jesús soportó el dolor en la cruz durante tres días!»