Quotes about Endurance
God does not relish our sufferings, but He delights in our development.
- Max Lucado
Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God? 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
Fulfill thy fate! Be-do-bear-and thank God.
- Philip James Bailey
Who would complain if God allowed one hour of suffering in an entire lifetime of comfort? Why complain about a lifetime that includes suffering when that lifetime is a mere hour of eternity?
- Philip Yancey
You shall find this to be God's usual course: not to give his children the taste of his delights till they begin to sweat in seeking after them.
- Richard Baxter
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.
- Samuel Rutherford
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.
- Henri Nouwen
It is sad that today many times people give up in the hard times and never get to enjoy the fruit of all their labor.
- Joyce Meyer
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
We are always on the anvil by trials God is shaping us for higher things.
- Henry Ward Beecher
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
- Charles Dickens
Wait for the Lord. Behave yourself manfully, and be of good courage. Do not be faithless, but stay in your place and do not turn back.
- Thomas a Kempis