Quotes About Suffering

God's design in our pain enables us to look back and say: He loves me enough to take me where I would have never wanted to go in order to produce in me what I never could have achieved on my own.

Christians are not so much in danger when they are persecuted as when they are admired.

The readiest way to escape from our sufferings is, to be willing they should endure as long as God pleases.

It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.

God is punishing me for my past wickedness by keeping me alive and in as much pain as he can.

Devils used to be God's angels that fell from the top. There is no diversity cos we're burnin in the melting pot.

If God made the world, I would not be that God, for the misery of the world would break my heart.

Oh God, don't envy me, I have my own pains.

During painful times, when you feel a terrible void, think how the capacity of your soul is being enlarged so that it can receive God- becoming as it were, infinite as God is infinite.

We cannot understand the meaning of many trials; God does not explain them. To explain a trial would be to destroy its object, which is that of calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience.

For a servant of God to have authority in every sentence he utters, he must first suffer for the message he is to deliver. Without great tribulation, there is no great illumination.

I have two young children with autism. What could they have ever done to deserve that? What kind of a God allows the innocent to suffer? It's a mystery. Yet still, I believe in God.

What man, if he were God, would humble himself to lie in the feedbox of a donkey or to hang upon a cross?

Be grateful for the wound that pushes you towards God.

The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God.

As God is my witness, he is broken in half!

God never uses anyone greatly until He tests them deeply.

Training in God's gym may hurt sometimes, but He will make us stronger.

See that you are not suddenly saddened by the adversities of this world, for you do not know the good they bring, being ordained in the judgments of God for the everlasting joy of the elect.

Our glory is hidden in our pain, if we allow God to bring the gift of himself in our experience of it.

God never uses a person greatly until He has wounded him deeply. The privilege He offers you is greater than the price you have to pay. The privilege is greater than the price.

The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.

God's plan makes you sing about resurrection when your hanging on a cross.

Whether we get to avoid pain and suffering or we must persevere in the midst of it, our deliverance comes when we're dragged from the enemy of our souls to the heart of God.