Quotes about Suffering
When you are in the midst of suffering you are looking for someone to be Jesus to you. You are looking for someone to love you and help take care of you, and reach out to you.
- Lee Strobel
The only way love punishes in by suffering.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Suffering can become a means to greater love and greater generosity.
- Mother Teresa
Love never comes without wounds; faith never comes without failure.
- Erwin McManus
Anyone who thinks hard work will never hurt you has never had to pay to have it done. Jesus now has many lovers of his Heavenly Kingdom, but few bearers of his cross.
- Thomas a Kempis
The sufferings endured for God are the greatest proof of our love for Him.
- Alphonsus Liguori
The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word "love."
- CS Lewis
What is the "extraordinary"? It is the love of Jesus Christ himself, love that goes to the cross in suffering obedience.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
What does the divine sufferer (Jesus) demand from us? Only our faith, our love, our grateful praise, our consecrated hearts and lives. Is that too much to ask?
- Billy Graham
He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
We rant and rave against God for the evil we have to endure but hardly blink at the evil in our own hearts.
- Joni Eareckson Tada