Quotes about Suffering
In the Christian faith, God really puts suffering front and center. He doesn't get squeamish about it.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
Whom God would use greatly He will hurt deeply.
- AW Tozer
We stood and watched as God abandoned us, and then we did the best we could.
- Alice Hoffman
God is always good and we are always loved... even when what He gives may appear ugly.
- Ann Voskamp
God can take anything that happens to us-even bad things-and use it to shape us and make us into a better, more Christlike person-if we let Him.
- Billy Graham
Our afflictions would trouble us much less if we knew God's reason for sending them.
- Billy Graham
If God were to remove all evil from our world (but somehow leave human beings on the planet), it would mean that the essence of 'humanness' would be destroyed. We would become robots.
- Billy Graham
Losses and crosses are heavy to bear; but when our hearts are right with God, it is wonderful how easy the yoke becomes.
- Charles Spurgeon
Ah! Justice of our God! Who else could stow Such travails new and pains as met my glance!
- Dante Alighieri
Whenever there is a catastrophe, some religious people inevitably ask, 'Why didn't God do something? Where was God when all those people died?'
- Tony Campolo
God is inviting you today to appropriately grieve your pains and losses and to acknowledge the world is seriously broken.
- Tullian Tchividjian
I call God long-suffering and patient precisely because He permits evil in the world. I know that He has no evil in Him and yet if there is evil, He is the author of it and yet untouched by it.
- Mahatma Gandhi