Quotes about Suffering

This day is going to be awful. It's the sort of day you wouldn't mind losing completely, even if it meant your life would be twenty-four hours shorter.

From heaven even the most miserable life will look like one bad night at an inconvenient hotel.

However much we do to avoid them, we shall never lack crosses in this life if we are in the ranks of the Crucified.

There's nothing like suffering to reveal how small and needy you are. Pain has the remarkable capacity to reveal the weakness of the things you're leaning on to make life worth living.

A biblical theology of persecution creates a framework for understanding God's sovereign purpose in allowing the evil dominions of darkness to inflict suffering on His children.

it's not enough for Christians merely to recognize that the world isn't what it ought to be and that people are suffering in ways they shouldn't have to suffer." Instead, our "sorrow and indignation" should prompt us to act in ways that "subvert" that brokenness.

Feed him [Micajah] with bread of affliction, and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring?

It was good for Paul and SilasAnd it's good enough for me.

My punishment is greater than I can bear.

The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

All they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.