Quotes about Suffering

God doesn't manufacture pain, but he certainly puts it to use.

In God's hands intended evil becomes eventual good. That's the message of Genesis 50:20 and the heart of Joseph's story.

We look at the Nike star player with the million-dollar smile and say, "I want to be like him." God points to His Son—who suffered the cross to save you—and says, "I want you to be like Him.

there are times when hearts grow so hard and ears so dull that God turns us over to endure the consequences of our choices.

he does pledge to reweave your pain for a higher purpose.

Are you angry with God? Tell him. Disgusted with God? Let him know. Weary of telling people you feel fine when you don't? Tell the truth. My friends Thomas and Andrea Davidson did. A stray bullet snatched their fourteen-year-old son, Tyler, out of their lives. Tom writes:

Glory falls around us as we sob a dirge of desolation on the Cross

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing.

not only was cleanliness next to Godliness, dirtiness was the inventor of misery.

But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams his shadow shouts on a nightmare scream his wings are clipped and his feet are tied so he opens his throat to sing. The caged bird sings with a fearful trill of things unknown but longed for still and his tune is heard on the distant hill for the caged bird sings of freedom. from Caged Bird

Momma convinced us that not only was cleanliness next to Godliness, dirtiness was the inventor of misery. The

Could I tell her now? The terrible pain assured me that I couldn't. What he did to me, and what I allowed, must have been very bad if already God let me hurt so much.