Quotes About Suffering

Yes, Christ can bring fruit from His followers' incalculable suffering. But on this side of eternity, the point isn't making it worth it. It's about making it matter.

My Child, I knew every difficulty you would face in life. I suffered each one with you. I loved you and had a plan for your life before you were born. This plan has not changed, no matter what happened or what you have done.

I'd go so far as to say that the deeper we have loved God, the deeper the potential for devastation when He doesn't intervene as we know He can.

In God's plan not only was Christ to suffer the cross, but we too must die daily.

After my skin has been destroyed, yet in my flesh I will see God. I myself will see him with my own eyes...[on] a white horse whose rider is called Faithful and True….How my heart yearns within me!" JOB 19:26-27; REVELATION 19:11; JOB 19:27

He has torn us, and He will heal us; He has wounded us, and He will bind up our wounds. Hosea 6:1

Beloved, can you accept that Christ takes very personally the unfair things that happen to you?

In all their suffering, He suffered, and the Angel of His Presence saved them. Isaiah 63:9

Our momentary light affliction is producing for us an absolutely incomparable eternal weight of glory. 2 Corinthians 4:17

I have observed the misery of My people in Egypt, and have heard them crying out because of their oppressors. Exodus 3:7

Have you noticed how people who most ignore God are the first to blame Him in time of tragedy?

So on those days when it seems like God is silent and you have nothing to show for your life besides dung and death, know that even those are not wasted. God is using even the messiest parts and the most painful and seemingly hopeless parts to get your soil ready. You, loved and chosen by God, have much good fruit yet to bear.

He was like one people turned away from; He was despised, and we didn't value Him. Isaiah 53:3

You'll know when your heart is starting to get well. It will hurt so badly with throbbing pangs of repentance, you'll think you're going to die. And you will. Then God will raise you from the very thing that has been the death of you. He really will give you a future.

You were called to this, because Christ also suffered for you, leaving you an example, so that you should follow in His steps. 1 Peter 2:21

For this I suffer, to the point of being bound like a criminal; but God's message is not bound. 2 Timothy 2:9

Still, from where we sit, even on this side of the Cross, where death gives way to life, sometimes what God has done for us can feel, instead, like something He has done to us.

If you're dealing with some ancient ruins, He was there when they crumbled. He knows every detail. He knows exactly how you've been affected, and His expertise is reconstruction. After all, Christ was a carpenter by trade. Nothing has ever been allowed to crumble in a Christian's life or heritage that God cannot reconstruct and use.

God chose to teach me with the very things Satan had used to defeat me.

Yeah, 'Requiem for a Dream' - it'll put you off a lot of things, that film, that's for sure.

This is just what I have thought when I have seen slaves at work - they seem to go through the motions of labor without putting strength into them. They keep their powers in reserve for their own use at night, perhaps.

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

You have cocktails for 250,000 people when millions upon millions are sick.

Veal, by definition, is the product of a sick, anemic, deliberately malnourished calf, a newborn dragged away from his mother in the first hours of life. Veal calves are dealt the harshest of punishments for the least essential of meats.