Quotes About Suffering

If God is pleased in making you sick and unhappy, I hate God.

Christ's crucifixion was on a hill, by a road, where everybody who passed by could not only see his pain, but also his shame. It was not done in a shadow, hidden away somewhere.

It was like I had a curse on me. I couldn't believe how much God was piling on. There was so much death around me.

Friends, suffering, marriage, environment, study and recreation are influence which shape character. The strongest influence, if you are generous enough to yield to it, is the grace of God.

God never allows pain without a purpose.

Suffering will get you great footage. I don't know about closer to God. Although there have been times when I've suffered to the point where I think I might be about to meet him.

God wants us to be totally dependent on Him, and suffering seems to bring us to that point.

Oh, Lord God, have mercy on me and mend my broken wings.

Lucifer, oh Lucifer, God of evil, you're the god of pain, the darkness is where you find your light.

God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth and He tries you through and through.

Suffering can serve us. Suffering tests our trust in God's promises. And we have a great interest in knowing the truth about our trust in Him.

Remember this: all suffering comes to an end. And whatever you suffer authentically, God has suffered from it first.

Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.

Those who have been used of God had to pay a terrific price.

The wailing of broken hearts is the doorway to God.

Mud and rain and wretchedness and blood. Why should jolly soldier-boys complain? God made these before the roofless Flood - Mud and rain.

Suffering may be someones fault or it may not be anyones fault. But if given to God, our suffering becomes an opportunity to experience the power of God at work in our lives and to give glory to Him.

I'm glad some people have that faith. I don't have that faith. If there is a God, a caring God, then we have to figure he's done an extraordinary job of making a very cruel world.

This is one of the great paradoxes of suffering. Those who don't suffer much think suffering should keep people from God, while many who suffer a great deal turn to God, not from him.

If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.

The impotence of God is infinite.

For misery don't blame God. He gives the food but we cook it.

... when we are hurt it is important to remember that God Himself has allowed it for a purpose.

Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world.