Quotes about Suffering

your history is no less important to your survival than your ability to breathe. In the end, you can only determine whether to saturate your memories with pain or with perspective. Forgetting is not an option. I tell you the truth now: Pain was not God's plan for this life. It is a reality, but it is not a part of the plan.

It's the sorrow you feel that allows you to crave love. Without the suffering, there would be no true pleasure. Without tears, no joy. Without deficiency, no longing. This is the secret of the human heart, Rom.

There is no dichotomy between man and God's image. Whoever tortures a human being, whoever abuses a human being, whoever outrages a human being, abuses God's image.

Men throw broken things away, but God never uses anything until he first breaks it.

Whenever God means to make a man great, he always breaks him in pieces first.

Nails were not enough to hold God-and-man nailed and fastened on the Cross, had not love held Him there.

The man who preaches the cross must be a crucified man.

Because Jesus Christ is a man, He feels what we feel. Because He is God, He can do something about it.

At the supreme moment of his dying Jesus so identified himself with men and the depths of their predicament and agony that no man can now sink so low that God has not gone lower.

Faith is a dark night for man, but in this very way it gives him light.

Men will never be great in theology until they are great in suffering.

Jesus Christ reveals, not an embarrassed God, not a confused God, not a God who stands apart from the problems, but One who stands in the thick of the whole thing with man.