Quotes about Suffering

In the words of Corrie ten Boom, "There is no pit too deep that God's grace isn't deeper still.

But if you allow God to translate your adversity into a ministry, then your pain becomes someone else's gain.

But what we find is that flight becomes captivity: once we begin to flee the things that threaten and burden us, there is no end to fleeing.

When we suffer, God empowers us to face the worst and become our best.

The enemy casts a shadow, big and dark and menacing. But there's no substance behind it. It has a stinger, but it's lost its venom. It has a bark, but no bite. We'll all suffer death in the lowercase. But by Christ's good graces, no one need suffer death in the uppercase. Death at that scale has been undone. Death still has battalions on the ground, pitching battle, making havoc, quibbling and collaborating among themselves. But the empire backing them has collapsed.

Our identity is not in our joy, and our identity is not in our suffering. Our identity is in Christ, whether we have joy or are suffering.

Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

I am not interested to know whether vivisection produces results that are profitable to the human race or doesn't.... The pain which it inflicts upon unconsenting animals is the basis of my enmity toward it, and it is to me sufficient justification of the enmity without looking further.

Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds upon the heel that crushes it.

Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.

We suffer much agony because we try to get from people what only God can give us, which is a sense of worth and value. Look to God for what you need, not to people.

Apart from the cross, there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven.