Quotes About Suffering

My religion says that only he who is prepared to suffer can pray to God.

To bear all kinds of tortures without a murmur of resentment is not possible for a human being without the strength that comes from God.

Whatever capacities there may be for enjoyment or for suffering in this strange being of ours, and God only knows what they are, they will be drawn out wholly in accordance with character.

Even if one glimpses God, there are cuts and splinters and burns along the way.

I know that God is not going to willfully hurt us. Why there is suffering is the business of the Lord, but He never seems to give us more than we can bear.

People invent gods to explain their suffering.

I don't believe in the end that God gave me cancer, but He certainly could have stopped it and didn't.

We, peopling the void air, Make Gods to whom to impute The ills we ought to bear; With God and Fate to rail at, suffering easily.

The Bible teaches us that God does not cause pain, but that He uses pain and evil to advance His cause and shape His servants.

One phrase summarizes the horror of hell. "God isn't there."

Heaven is God's answer to any suffering you may face.

God does not relish our sufferings, but He delights in our development.

I believe for God not to allow pain to happen in the world is for Him to extract free will from the world.

I try to help people see that God uses pain, that pain is one of the ways God shapes us into the kind of beings He wants us to be for eternity.

Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God? I try to help people see that God uses pain, that pain is one of the ways God shapes us into the kind of beings He wants us to be for eternity.

God's greatest blessings often come costumed as disasters. Any doubters need to do nothing more than ascend the hill of Calvary.

Wherever God spends the day, He comes home to sleep in Rwanda.

I do not need a reason to be angry with God.

He (Job) did not seek the Giver because of His gifts; when all gifts were removed he still sought the Giver.

The point of the Book of Job is not suffering: where is God When It hurts? The prologue (chapters 1-2) dealt with that issue. The point of the Book of Job is faith: Where is Job when it hurts?

Who would complain if God allowed one hour of suffering in an entire lifetime of comfort? Why complain about a lifetime that includes suffering when that lifetime is a mere hour of eternity?

Never do I see Jesus lecturing people on the need to accept blindness or lameness as an expression of God's secret will; rather, he healed them.

If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.

Paul welcomed hearbreak, disillusionment and tribulation for only one reason - - these things kept him immovable in his devotion to the gospel of God.