Quotes About Suffering

God also allows suffering so that we might learn what it means to depend on Him, not on our own strength and resources.

Maybe it's our sins that give God consolation when he finally has to give us cancer.

God pisses down the back of your neck every day but only drowns you once.

By suffering God's will, we learn to do God's will.

We strain to hear. But instead of hearing an answer we catch sight of God himself scraped and torn. Through our tears we see the tears of God

If there were never any clouds (sorrows and sufferings) in our lives, we would have no faith. God does not come near us without clouds.

We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of God. Amazing grace is no longer amazing to us.

God intentionally allows you to go through painful experiences to equip you for ministry to others.

The cross is God taking on flesh and blood and saying, Me too.

No doubt, God alone has become all these objects, animate and inanimate, but in the relative world all beings act and suffer according to their past Karma and innate tendencies.

Why is God making me suffer so much? Just because I don't believe in him?

Anything you want to say about God you better make sure you can say in front of a pit of burning babies.

They say that God makes problems just to see what you can stand, before you do as the devil pleases.

We serve God by serving our fellow man; kids are suffering from malnutrition. People are going to the fields hungry. If you are a Christian, we are tired of being mistreated.

O God, the creature knows not to what end Thou hast made Him; teach him, and write in the depths of his soul that the clay must suffer itself to be shaped at the will of the potter.

God is the pain of the fear of death

Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence.

I am the wheat of God, and am ground by the teeth of the wild beasts, that I may be found the pure bread of God.

We fouled up. I did. He got hurt. Badly, maybe. And the god...is not helping him today.

Have there ever been more submissive slaves? Adoring, even in their irons, the God who punishes them.

We're not the paragons of virtue that we'd all like to think we are. And so, to shatter that myth, God will use suffering to expose the stuff of which we're made.

I find God in the suffering eyes reflected in mine. If this is how you are revealed to me, this is how I will forever seek you.

To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.

God has never deserted our people. Through the ages Jews have had to suffer, but through the ages they've gone on living, and the centuries of suffering have only made them stronger.