Quotes About Suffering

God can never make us wine if we object to the fingers He uses to crush us with.

It is one thing to fall victim to the flood or to fall prey to cancer; it is another thing to fall into the hands of the living God.

Do not think that if you surrender to God you will be loser. You will not lose anything except bondage, frustration and suffering. That is all you will lose.

We must be instruments of God's compassion to those who are suffering.

Suffering brings me so close to God.

What the word God means is the mystery really. It's the mystery that we face as humans the mystery of existence, of suffering and of death.

No one laughs at God in a hospital.

God uses everything for good in our lives.

God knows what it's like to lose a son.

Job can be anyone. Yahweh can be everyone's God!

God afflicts with the mind of a father, and kills for no other purpose but that he may raise again.

That's all religion is -- some principle you believe in . . . man has accomplished far more miracles than the God he invented. What a tragedy it is to invent a God and then suffer to keep him King.

As the perfect parent, God suffers emotional pain when his creatures, created in his own image and likeness, rebel against him and do evil instead of good.

O Seeker, pain and suffering make one aware of God.

My dear brother, let God make of you what He will, He will end all with consolation, and shall make glory out of your suffering.

Through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God ... It is folly to think to steal to heaven with a whole skin.

God I bring each wounded child to Thee.

I can understand the things that afflict mankind, but I often marvel at God those which console. An atom may wound, but God alone can heal.

Que le Dieu qui nous tue nous vienne en aide! God who kills us, come to our rescue!

I say somewhat facetiously, "I'm so glad I'm not God." Can you imagine being God and looking at Syria and saying: "These are my children. Look at what they're doing to each other."

Jesus could weep. Sometimes when you look at the ugliness that makes you weep, you know that the heart of God is also weeping. Jesus is for real. He does not give up on anyone, least of all on me.

Ultimately, suffering is always political with all kinds of justifications - there are those who justify Israel's occupation of land as being a fulfillment of what God had promised.

Before Jesus leads His disciples into suffering, humiliation, disgrace, and disdain, He summons them and shows Himself to them as the Lord in God's glory.

God honors some with great suffering and grants them the grace of martyrdom, while other are not tempted beyond their strength. But in every case it is one cross.