Quotes about Suffering
Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.
- St. Augustine
No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.
- Oswald Chambers
Automatically thinking 'everything that happens is God's will' is a lazy way to live. We live in a war. Jesus wasn't fighting the Father's will when He raised the dead.
- Bill Johnson
Most of the verses written about praise in God's Word were voiced by people who were faced with crushing heartaches, injustice, treachery, slander, and scores of other difficult situations.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
There are times when I feel that he has withdrawn from me, and I have often given him cause, but Easter is always the answer to My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!
- Madeleine L'Engle
I am God's wheat and shall be ground by their teeth so that I may become Christ's pure bread.
- Ignatius of Antioch
Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God.
- Sam Storms
Whatsoever God takes away from His children, He either replaces it with a much greater favor or else gives strength to bear it.
- Richard Sibbes
God always seems bigger to those who need him most. And suffering is the tool he uses to help us need him more.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
The crowning experience of all, for the homecoming man, is the wonderful feeling that, after all he has suffered, there is nothing he need fear anymore—except his God.
- Viktor E. Frankl
God wrote a book on suffering, and its name is Jesus.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!"
- Madeleine L'Engle