Quotes About Suffering

I always say if God didn't allow any bad things to happen we would already be in heaven, and we are not there.

If yuh don't know God yuh goin' suffer and dead! No God Noh Partial, regardless weh yuh deh pon earth.

Paradoxical as it may seem, God means not only to make us good, but to make us also happy, by sickness, disaster and disappointment.

Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless.

God uses prisons to train people for future roles of leadership or martyrdom.

Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them.

O, my God! withhold from me the wealth to which tears and sighs and curses cleave. Better none at all than wealth like that.

God is so committed to your ultimate joy that he was willing to plunge into the greatest depths of suffering himself for you.

God takes our misery and suffering so seriously that he was willing to take it on himself.

God so loved us and hates suffering that he was willing to come down and get involved in it.

Just because you can't see or imagine a good reason why God might allow something to happen doesn't mean there can't be one.

Jesus is the ultimate Job, the only truly innocent sufferer.

Suffering is actually at the heart of the Christian story.

The truth is that God is to be found in all things - even and most especially in the painful, tragic and unpleasant things.

God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.

We must agree to live in this world, with all that is unfair about it, without knowing why, if we wish to have a God in our lives.

Affliction is but the shadow of God's wing.

I can't go around believing in a God that believes suffering is good for me.

By afflictions God is spoiling us of what otherwise might have spoiled us. When he makes the world too hot for us to hold, we let it go.

God can be found only in suffering and the cross.

God who gives the wound gives the salve.

God who sends the wound sends the medicine.

Let us hope, I prayed, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.

The furnace of affliction refines us from earthly drossiness, and softens us for the impression of God's own stamp.