Quotes about Suffering
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Fear is more pain than is the pain it fears
- LM Montgomery
The sufferings of Christ are the means of forgiveness of sin and eternal glory
- John Calvin
Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne those already laid upon you well — it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently.
- Francis de Sales
One cannot desire freedom from the Cross when one is especially chosen for the Cross.
- Edith Stein
If the Resurrection is resurrection from the dead, all hope and freedom are in spite of death.
- Paul Ricoeur
God led Jesus to a cross, not a crown, and yet that cross ultimately proved to be the gateway to freedom and forgiveness for every sinner in the world.
- Bill Hybels
The selfish man suffers more from his selfishness than he from whom that selfishness withholds some important benefit.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wounded healers are GOD's Greatest weapons.
- Mario Murillo
Now here is what you need to understand: If you don't turn your adversity into a ministry, then your pain remains your pain. But if you allow God to translate your adversity into a ministry, then your pain becomes someone else's gain.
- Mark Batterson
But remember this: without a crucifixion there can be no resurrection!
- Mark Batterson
You can be saved without suffering, but you cannot be sanctified without suffering. That doesn't mean you seek it out, but it does mean you see it for what it is. It's an opportunity to glorify God.
- Mark Batterson