Quotes About Suffering

But He Himself hath sealed your sufferings, and their thus saying condemns God, and His sealing condemns them.

A voice behind me asked, "Where is God? Where is He? Where can He be now?" and a voice within me answered: "Where? Here He is - He has been hanged here, on these gallows."

I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.

It is a great thing to be a child of God, and joint-heir with Jesus Christ. If this is your privilege, you will know the fellowship of Christ's sufferings.

If there's a God in heaven, what's he waiting for? If He can't hear the children, then he must see the war.

Remorse is cureless--the Disease Not even God--can heal-- For 'tis His institution--and The Adequate of Hell

There are those that even God exploits, and they are prophets and saints in the vacuousness of the world.

That satisfied me until I began to figure that if God loved all his children equally, why did he bother about my red hat and let other people lose their fathers and mothers for always?

We know that many of the apostles of Christ were killed. Eleven out of 12 met violent deaths when they were just talking about God and light.

This was his world, he said to himself, the sad, oppressive world that God had provided for him, and he was responsible to it.

With God thoughts are colors, with us they are pigments-even the most abstract one may be accompanied by physical pain.

My mother once told me she thought hell would be nothing more than being given a glimpse of God--then having it taken away, forever.

God allows hardship in our lives so that our beliefs-those handholds of faith in a troubled world-will became more and more real to us and less and less theory.

In agony or danger, no nature is atheist. The mind that knows not what to fly to, flies to God.

When we learn to move through suffering, rather than avoid it, then we greet it differently. We become willing to let it teach us. We even begin to see how God can use it for some larger end.

One puts into one's art what one has not been capable of putting into one's existence. It is because he was unhappy that God created the world.

What punishments of God are not gifts?

Who loves his pain denies his god.

Don't worry, God understands,' Mom said. 'He knows that your father is a cross we must bear.

Happy the heart to whom God has given enough strength and courage to suffer for Him, to find happiness in simplicity and the happiness of others.

Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain. I'll say it again. God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

The other gods were strong; but thou wast weak; they rode, but thou didst stumble to a throne; But to our wounds only God's wounds can speak, And not a god has wounds, but thou alone.

I chose to believe that God, a benign God, would understand our sufferings and forgive us our trespasses.