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Quotes About Suffering

If Hell were possible, it would be the shortest cut to the highest heaven. For verily God loveth.
~ Sri Aurobindo
Satan can imitate God, but he cannot duplicate Him - God is the only One who can deliver us from our pain and suffering.
~ David Jeremiah
Never shall I forget those moments that murdered my God and my soul and turned my dreams to ashes.
~ Elie Wiesel
Calamity is a blessing when it brings one to God. --- Hadassah
~ Francine Rivers
How can we speak of right and justice if we take an innocent creature and shed its blood? How can we pray to God for mercy if we ourselves have no mercy? Nobel laureate in literature.
~ Isaac Bashevis Singer
The children of God all have a cross to bear. A suffering Savior generally has suffering disciples.
~ J. C. Ryle
God instructs the heart, not by ideas but by pains and contradictions.
~ Jean-Pierre de Caussade
As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology.
~ Jennifer Stone
The greater hardship you endure, the greater the authority God entrusts to you.
~ John Bevere
God have mercy on the sinner Who must write with no dinner, No gravy and no grub, No pewter and no pub, No bellyand no bowels, Only consonants and vowels.
~ John Crowe Ransom
God permits what He hates in order to accomplish something that He loves.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
~ Elbert Hubbard
From all that dims Thy Calvary, O Lamb of God, deliver me.
~ Amy Carmichael
This world is bad enough maybe; We do not comprehend it; But in one fact can all agree God won't, and we can't mend it.
~ Arthur Hugh Clough
The cross of Christ is the pledge to us that the deepest suffering may be the condition of the highest blessing; the sign, not of God's displeasure, but of His widest and most compassionate face.
~ Arthur Penrhyn Stanley
It matters not to me what I do, or what I suffer, so long as I abide loveingly united to God's will - that is my whole business.
~ Brother Lawrence
Thanks be to God, Who gives us sufferingas sacred remedy for all our sins,that best and purest essence which preparesthe strong in spirit for divine delights!
~ Charles Baudelaire
Don't worry when you're being persecuted for God, worry when you're not.
~ Craig Groeschel
Jonah saw God's will as punishment. Jesus saw God's will as nourishment.
~ Warren W. Wiersbe
To be an Error and to be Cast out is a part of God's Design.
~ William Blake
The sovereignty of God is the only foundation for worship in the midst of tragedy.
~ David Platt
Only the suffering God can help.
~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer
seizing the swift logic of a woman, Curse God and die.
~ Edwin Arlington Robinson
I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.
~ Ernest Holmes