Quotes About Suffering

Let us pray for the many Christians in the world who still suffer persecution and violence. May God grant them the courage of fidelity.

My guru said that when he suffers, it brings him closer to God. I have found this, too.

I have seen these ways of God: I know of no reason For fire and change and torture and the old returnings.

The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering.

God measures out affliction to our need.

The gods have become our diseases.

Whoever does not know God hidden in suffering does not know God at all.

When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery. Will there also be faith? Yes, if our attention is focused more on the cross, and on the God of the cross, than on the suffering itself.

Lord, how Thou dost afflict Thy lovers!

If God is treated as God during suffering, then suffering can reveal and present him in all his greatness.

God allows us to feel pain for a reason: to protect us.

Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and self-sacrifice would all be meaningless things.

Why do people hate God?... One, they hate the moral standard. Two, they hate the way he's transforming the world even in the midst of suffering and tragedy.

Brokenness is the bow from which God launches the arrow of healing.

True poverty does not come from God.

God's grace doesn't always come in comfortable forms. But it's still grace, and it's still evidence that He loves us.

I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.

I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

Jesus makes the bitterest mouthful taste sweet.

There are such things as consecrated griefs, sorrows that may be common to everyone but which take on a special character when accepted intelligently and offered to God in loving submission.

The word of God teaches that Christians suffer in order that they might glorify God in their lives.

God always punishes us for what we can't imagine.

Your body Hurts me as the world hurts God

I will send a shower of roses.