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Quotes About Suffering

Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.
~ Joseph de Maistre
Not to be afflicted is a sign of weakness; for, therefore God imposeth no more on me, because He sees I can bear no more.
~ Joseph Hall
If God was dead, how could I feel this bad?
~ Joseph Heller
In hell, the Devil is God.
~ Kedar Joshi
The moment passed — but the darkness is so dark, and the pain is so painful. – But I accept whatever He gives and I give whatever He takes.
~ Mother Teresa
Because things are not agreeable, " said Jean Valjean, "that is no reason for being unjust towards God.
~ Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
To the short-sighted, through the fog, God must be a monster.
~ Criss Jami, Healology
To lose one parent might be considered a misfortune, or a reason to deny God's existence at the least. To lose two looks like He may be up to something.
~ Johnny Rich, The Human Script
God can give or take away, Well who would make such an awful rule.
~ Josh Ritter
And we ask ourselves, if there is a God, how can this happen? Better to ask, if there is a God... must it be sane?
~ Lucien LaCroix
I wrestled through many sleepless nights after God became real to me. I can only describe this period of my life as 2 years of mental agony.
~ C.L. Cagan
Our crucifixes exhibit the pain, but they veil, perhaps necessarily, the obscenity: but the death of the God-Man was both.
~ Charles Williams
Jan is het kotsbeu dat de Kerk al het kwade blijft wijten aan de van van de mens en dat al het lijden mensen dichter bij God brengt.
~ Yves Saerens, De Dwarsligger
You are not alone in your sorrow and suffering because the good Lord is suffering with you. He cannot see His children unhappy.
~ Latika Teotia
He wounds but he heals.
~ Lailah Gifty Akita
As I silently rub the drops of blood on the wall, I can only find the right words when I think of that merciful and just God who is so far away, and yet so close.
~ Lin Zhao
This life is the only opportunity we will have to worship God in the midst of trials and tests. Heaven will be perfect.
~ James Cooley
A man only misfortune is to forsake his Maker.
~ Lailah Gifty, Akita
But can one actually see beauty with eyes blurred by the lack of almost everything a human being needs?
~ Paulo Lins, City of God
The world is groaning and mourning in pain and ignorance, because the people do not know much about the principles of God
~ Sunday Adelaja
It is unjust, but only Christlike, to suffer persecution for doing what is right.
~ Joyce Rachelle
Hold my hands O Lord!Teach me to walk once againMy mind is covered with clouds darkAnd my soul wriggles in pain!
~ Neelam Saxena Chandra
Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.
~ R. C. Sproul
Why bad things happen to good people
~ Harold S. Kushner