Quotes about Suffering
The cross is God taking on flesh and blood and saying, Me too.
- Rob Bell
We serve God by serving our fellow man; kids are suffering from malnutrition. People are going to the fields hungry. If you are a Christian, we are tired of being mistreated.
- Fannie Lou Hamer
Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence.
- Henry Ward Beecher
I am the wheat of God, and am ground by the teeth of the wild beasts, that I may be found the pure bread of God.
- Ignatius of Antioch
God did not just overcome evil at the cross. He made evil serve the overcoming of evil. He made evil commit suicide in doing its worst evil.
- John Piper
We're not the paragons of virtue that we'd all like to think we are. And so, to shatter that myth, God will use suffering to expose the stuff of which we're made.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.
- DA Carson
God has never deserted our people. Through the ages Jews have had to suffer, but through the ages they've gone on living, and the centuries of suffering have only made them stronger.
- Anne Frank
If yuh don't know God yuh goin' suffer and dead! No God Noh Partial, regardless weh yuh deh pon earth.
- Bob Marley
Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless.
- CS Lewis
God uses prisons to train people for future roles of leadership or martyrdom.
- Charles Colson
God is so committed to your ultimate joy that he was willing to plunge into the greatest depths of suffering himself for you.
- Timothy Keller