Quotes About Suffering

My mother began to go crazy. Not in a 'Let's paint the kitchen red!' sort of way. But crazy in a 'gas oven, toothpaste sandwhich, I am God' sort of way.

God can take anything that happens to us-even bad things-and use it to shape us and make us into a better, more Christlike person-if we let Him.

Our afflictions would trouble us much less if we knew God's reason for sending them.

Losses and crosses are heavy to bear; but when our hearts are right with God, it is wonderful how easy the yoke becomes.

I don't want to give the illusion that one day God came down and I was healed.

Help me. Please, God help me.

God is with us, not beyond us, in suffering.

Ah! Justice of our God! Who else could stow Such travails new and pains as met my glance!

You may pluck out my eyes, but that cannot kill me. You may chop off my nose, but that will not kill me. But blast my belief in God, and I am dead.

When we suffer, it is because of our own acts; God is not to be blamed for it.

God has to remind us this isn't heaven by a long shot, so he increases the radios and lethal flies.

If there is a God, then he was particularly harsh to me

God sometimes washes the eyes of His children with tears in order that they may read aright His providence and His commandments.

Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?'

I've been raising up my hands drive another nail in just what God needs one more victim

God is inviting you today to appropriately grieve your pains and losses and to acknowledge the world is seriously broken.

Because we don't see the evil destroyed now and thus experience the suffering that evil inevitably inflicts, we are tempted to doubt God's existence and goodness.

God and His Priest and King,...make up a heaven of our misery.

Dear God, let me be damned a little longer, a little while.

God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe.

He who does not welcome the Cross does not welcome God.

I can't prove to you that there is a God, I just know. All this suffering has to have a reason.

God said, Here. Have it. Enjoy it. I'm gonna be miserable?

I call God long-suffering and patient precisely because He permits evil in the world. I know that He has no evil in Him and yet if there is evil, He is the author of it and yet untouched by it.