Quotes About Suffering

I have tried and I cannot find, either in scripture or in history, a strong-willed individual whom God used greatly until He allowed them to be hurt deeply.

"Spirituality" wrongly understood or pursued is a major source of human misery and rebellion against God.

For nothing, how little soever, that is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.

Its shocking how many people believe hardships are a punishment from God! Every hardship is good for you-if it brings you closer to Him!

It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.

It is Lucifer, The son of mystery; And since God suffers him to be, He too, is God's minister, And labors for some good By us not understood.

God lets us continue to feel much of sin's sting through suffering while we're heading for heaven. This constantly reminds us of what we're being delivered from; exposing sin for the poison it is.

Do you know why God subjects you to so many miseries? That He may bestow on you the riches of heaven.

In one word, one should desire of God desirelessness. For desire alone is at the root of all suffering. It is the cause of repeated births and deaths. It is the obstacle in the way of liberation.

Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.

God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives.

If we can know the beauty God is forming in us, we can bear the pain He allows in our lives.

God points to the peaceful attitude of suffering people to teach others about Himself.

God is dead, and no one cares! If there is a hell I'll see you there!

Afflictions are but the shadows of God's wings.

I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it.

Only good things come from God's hands. He never gives you more than you can bear. Every burden prepares you for eternity.

Whoever brings an affliction, it is God who sends it.

God did not rescue me out of the pain, He rescued me through the pain!

We suffer from the evils which we, by our own free will, inflict on ourselves and ascribe them to God, who is far from being connected with them!

Suffering did different things to different people...Some souls became tempered, unshakable in their faith, while others became twisted and mis-shapen, throwing off all connection to God.

World War II proves there's no God.

A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind.

When we behold the face of God, all memories of pain and suffering will vanish. Our souls shall be totally healed.