Quotes about Suffering

People lead lives of quiet desperation.

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

God uses suffering as a whetstone, to make men sharp with.

You have come into a hard world. I know of only one easy place in it, and that is the grave.

To St. Paul, stripes, stones, shipwrecks, and thorns in the flesh were religious experiences to Judas Iscariot, the daily companionship of Jesus of Nazareth was not.

was exceptional in suffering, which was often by the choice of others, but exceptional in prayer, too, which was by his own choice. If more were strong in prayer, more would be suited to suffer. Prayer develops bone as well as groan, sinew as well as saintliness, fortitude as well as fire.

If you aren't smelling awful smells sometimes, then you're not where Jesus is.

If you've never bled, you have no material for preaching. If when you're finished preaching you're not finished, spent, wiped out — if you haven't "given blood" — you haven't really preached.9

It is this, it is this that oppresses my soul.

A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward. Rather than begrudge your problem, explore it. Ponder it. And most of all, use it. Use it to the glory of God.

Mankind cannot suffer anywhere without it bringing sorrow to other hearts.

He must be suffering, too. She had noted the weary sag of his shoulders, the quivering lips, the tear- filled eyes. Somehow she had never thought of him as hurting- of being capable of understanding how she felt.