Quotes about Suffering
Christians can trust God to redeem even the greatest of tragedies and the most desperate of situations.
- Franklin Graham
If we can trust the sufferings of Christ for our sake then we can trust Christ when we suffer for His sake.
- AW Tozer
You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry. I know that nothing can undo the wrong you have endured. Your trust has been betrayed and your dignity has been violated.
- Pope Benedict XVI
Don't believe false teaching that says you won't suffer if you really love Jesus. Jesus will end all suffering eventually, but on earth he suffered more than anyone.
- Mark Driscoll
Our pain carves out a larger space for love to fill.
- Khalil Gibran
Any kind of love that lacks the iron of the Cross in it, is anemic love.
- Ann Voskamp
Our Heavenly Healer often has to hurt us in order to heal us. We sometimes fail to recognize His mighty love in this, yet we are firmly held always in the Everlasting Arms.
- Elisabeth Elliot
I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.
- St. Augustine
In spite of this trial, which takes all enjoyment from me, I can never the less, cry out, 'Lord, you fill me with joy in all that you do. For is there a joy greater than to suffer for love?'
- St. Therese of Lisieux
Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering.
- Mahatma Gandhi
By the law of nature, there is no pleasure in suffering; but divine love, when it reigns in a heart, makes it take delight in its sufferings.
- Alphonsus Liguori
Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.