Quotes About Suffering

A throne is God's purpose for you; a cross is God's path for you; faith is God's plan for you.

No one was ever called by God to greater suffering than God's only begotten Son.

Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.

Whatever be the ground of one's distress, it should drive him to, not from God.

By suffering we are able to give something to God. The gift of pain, of suffering is a big thing and cannot be accomplished in Paradise.

No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.

Automatically thinking 'everything that happens is God's will' is a lazy way to live. We live in a war. Jesus wasn't fighting the Father's will when He raised the dead.

Most of the verses written about praise in God's Word were voiced by people who were faced with crushing heartaches, injustice, treachery, slander, and scores of other difficult situations.

There are times when I feel that he has withdrawn from me, and I have often given him cause, but Easter is always the answer to My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!

I am God's wheat and shall be ground by their teeth so that I may become Christ's pure bread.

Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God.

The believer in God has to account for the existence of unjust suffering; the atheist has to account for everything else.

Do you know how cruel your God can be, David. How fantastically cruel?...Sometimes he makes us live.

If you only knew what God had to take me through to get me to the place where he could use me to be a blessing to other people, I doubt whether you would be willing to pay the price.

Whatsoever God takes away from His children, He either replaces it with a much greater favor or else gives strength to bear it.

God always seems bigger to those who need him most. And suffering is the tool he uses to help us need him more.

God must have been on leave during the Holocaust.

The crowning experience of all, for the homecoming man, is the wonderful feeling that, after all he has suffered, there is nothing he need fear anymore—except his God.

God wrote a book on suffering, and its name is Jesus.

do not be surprised by your trials, since the Son of God has chosen them for our salvation.

God has to be temporarily cruel in order to be permanently kind.

Some of His children must go into the furnace to testify that the Son of God is there with them.

Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!"

God steps into the suffering with us, and He takes it on himself, and He walks through it with us, and He uses it to create something in you that is # unstoppable .