Quotes about Suffering
When God wants to make a mushroom, he does it overnight, but when He wants to make a giant oak, He takes a hundred years. Great souls are grown through struggles and storms and seasons of suffering. Be patient with the process.
- Rick Warren
The deepest level of worship is praising God inspite of pain, trusting Him during a trial, surrendering while suffering, and loving Him when He seems distant.
- Rick Warren
The deepest level of worship is praising God in spite of pain, thanking God during a trial, trusting him when tempted, surrendering while suffering, and loving him when he seems distant.
- Rick Warren
Your most profound and intimate experiences of worship will likely be in your darkest days - when your heart is broken, when you feel abandoned, when you're out of options, when the pain is great - and you turn to God alone.
- Rick Warren
Why would God provide heaven on earth when he's planned the real thing for you in eternity?
- Rick Warren
Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.
- Alice Walker
Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused.
- Charles Spurgeon
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
- Teresa of Avila
Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.
- Oswald Chambers
The Prayer of the sick person is his patience and his acceptance of his sickness for the love of Jesus Christ. Make sickness itself a prayer, for there is none more powerful, save martyrdom!
- Francis de Sales
More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.
- Teresa of Avila
Whether we think of, or speak to, God, whether we act or suffer for him, all is prayer, when we have no other object than his love, and the desire of pleasing him.
- John Wesley