Quotes about Suffering

Calamity is blessing when it brings one to God.

When he told his story to believers, they wept and rejoiced. To unbelievers, he was an object of ridicule. The euphoria and security she felt with those who shared her faith dissolved when she watched her father stand before a crowd and suffer their abuse.

They didn't kill the one they judged anymore. They left them broken and wounded.

Father said it is not God's will that any should suffer." "Then why must we?" "We bear the consequences for what we have done to ourselves, and for the sin that rules this world. Jesus forgave the thief, but he didn't take him down off the cross.

Good friend, we all hurt for her. But her suffering will bring about God's purpose, and you will see it.

There was pain in him—like a blister, all that was left of some lost yesterday that Time had pruned off him.

Organic church life, however, is a wedding of glory and gore.

The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.

Remember the sufferings of Christ, the storms that were weathered... the crown that came from those sufferings which gave new radiance to the faith... All saints give testimony to the truth that without real effort, no one ever wins the crown.

When any calamity has been suffered the first thing to be remembered is, how much has been escaped.

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.