Quotes about Suffering
Brokenness is the bow from which God launches the arrow of healing.
- Louie Giglio
True poverty does not come from God.
- Lyndon B. Johnson
God's grace doesn't always come in comfortable forms. But it's still grace, and it's still evidence that He loves us.
- Paul David Tripp
We are apt to believe in Providence so long as we have our own way; but if things go awry, then we think, if there is a God, he is in heaven, and not on earth.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Jesus makes the bitterest mouthful taste sweet.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
The word of God teaches that Christians suffer in order that they might glorify God in their lives.
- Billy Graham
The godly have some good in them, therefore the devil afflicts them; and some evil in them, therefore God afflicts them.
- Thomas Watson
The best people often have terrible lives. Job is one example, and Jesus—the ultimate 'Job,' the only truly, fully innocent sufferer — is another.
- Timothy Keller
How could a good, all-powerful God allow suffering?
- Timothy Keller
I don't doubt that God can bring good out of tragedies, but the Bible is clear that God is not the author of evil!
- Tony Campolo
This is God's universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world.
- John Piper
To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world.
- Oswald Chambers