Quotes About Suffering

Suffering is the way for Realization of God.

Christ exposed Himself not only to the unbridled hostility of angry men, but, more significantly, to the unmitigated wrath of God.

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

I don't understand why God took him and didn't take me.

Giving thanks is that: making the canyon of pain into a megaphone to proclaim the ultimate goodness of God when Satan and all the world would sneer at us to recant.

When I have found intense pain relieved, a weary brain soothed, and calm refreshing sleep obtained by a cigar, I have felt grateful to God, and have blessed His name.

Suffering is unbearable if you aren't certain that God is for you and with you.

What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?

God only allows pain if He's allowing something new to be born.

It's good to suffer. Dont complain. Bear, bow, accept - and be grateful that God has made you suffer. For this makes you better than the people who are laughing and happy.

God's the seamstress that tailor-fitted my pain.

When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.

We don't need answers and explanations as much as we need God's presence in and through the suffering.

Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from God's suffering for us. The way out of our loss and hurt is in and through.

Suffering is arguably God's choicest tool in shaping the character of Christ in us.

God strung up his own son like a side of veal. I shudder to think what he would do to me.

If God has made your cup sweet, drink it with grace; if He has made it bitter, drink it in communion with Him.

When you seek a connection to God, you suffer. God is not absent.

Jesus' response to suffering people and to "nobodies" provides a glimpse into the heart of God. God is not the unmoved Absolute, but rather the Loving One who draws near.

The deepest level of worship is praising God inspite of pain, trusting Him during a trial, surrendering while suffering, and loving Him when He seems distant.

The church teaches us that we can make God happy by being miserable ourselves.

Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with 'ashes.

When pain and suffering strike, our faith is well founded if it is standing on the promises of God. For all of God's promises have strong confirmation in Christ.

When we hurt, God doesn't always give us lots of words; he gives us the Word; the Word made flesh who is intimately acquainted with our grief and suffering. That's what helps the most.