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Quotes About Pain

Unhappiness was my god.
~ Arthur Rimbaud
Listen, my dear Cors, why don't you forgive God for allowing pain? If He didn't allow it, human courage, bravery, nobility, and self-sacrifice would all be meaningless things.
~ Walter M. Miller, Jr.
God, I felt like hell tonight, tears of rage I cannot fight.
~ Sheryl Crow
God! how is it that we fail to recognize that the mask of pleasure, stripped of all hypocrisy, is that of anguish?
~ Georges Bernanos
Your body Hurts me as the world hurts God
~ Sylvia Plath
I had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible place, yet when my release came and I knew that God's sunlight was to be free for me again, there was a certain pain in leaving
~ Nellie Bly
Whatever else we may say about it, the atonement fulfills the Jewish principle that only one who has been hurt can forgive. At Calvary, God chose to be hurt.
~ Philip Yancey
In the Christian faith, God really puts suffering front and center. He doesn't get squeamish about it.
~ Joni Eareckson Tada
Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth.
~ Aeschylus
This suffering, this unspeakable capacity to bleed and to know pain and to know annihilation, is what has to be overcome in this world if anyone is to reach God.
~ Anne Rice
All too often we are more afraid of physical pain than of moral wrong. The cross is the standing evidence of the fact that holiness is a principle for which God would die.
~ Billy Graham
God knows we're all drawn to what's beautiful and broken.
~ Cassandra Clare
Help me. Please, God help me.
~ Christa Faust
Friendship is the holiest of gifts; God can bestow nothing more sacred upon us! It enhances every joy, mitigates every pain. Everyone can have a friend, Who himself knows how to be a friend.
~ Christoph August Tiedge
Change is the law of God's mind and resistance to it is the source of all pain.
~ Craig Ferguson
I don't want to feel anything for you, Dante" "God, Tess. I don't want to feel anything for you either.
~ Tina St. John
God is inviting you today to appropriately grieve your pains and losses and to acknowledge the world is seriously broken.
~ Tullian Tchividjian
God's mills grind slow, But they grind woe.
~ William Rounseville Alger
To look to God is to look to the realm of consciousness that can deliver us from the pain of living.
~ Marianne Williamson
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.
~ Max Lucado
God, the Master Weaver. He stretches the yarn and intertwines the colors, the ragged twine with the velvet strings, the pains with the pleasures. Nothing escapes his reach.
~ Max Lucado
God does not relish our sufferings, but He delights in our development.
~ Max Lucado
I believe for God not to allow pain to happen in the world is for Him to extract free will from the world.
~ Max Lucado
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.
~ Max Lucado