Quotes about Suffering
My religion says that only he who is prepared to suffer can pray to God.
- Mahatma Gandhi
To bear all kinds of tortures without a murmur of resentment is not possible for a human being without the strength that comes from God.
- Mahatma Gandhi
I know that God is not going to willfully hurt us. Why there is suffering is the business of the Lord, but He never seems to give us more than we can bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I don't believe in the end that God gave me cancer, but He certainly could have stopped it and didn't.
- Matt Chandler
The Bible teaches us that God does not cause pain, but that He uses pain and evil to advance His cause and shape His servants.
- Max Lucado
One phrase summarizes the horror of hell. "God isn't there."
- Max Lucado
Heaven is God's answer to any suffering you may face.
- Max Lucado
God does not relish our sufferings, but He delights in our development.
- Max Lucado
I believe for God not to allow pain to happen in the world is for Him to extract free will from the world.
- Max Lucado
I try to help people see that God uses pain, that pain is one of the ways God shapes us into the kind of beings He wants us to be for eternity.
- Max Lucado
Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God? I try to help people see that God uses pain, that pain is one of the ways God shapes us into the kind of beings He wants us to be for eternity.
- Max Lucado
God's greatest blessings often come costumed as disasters. Any doubters need to do nothing more than ascend the hill of Calvary.
- Max Lucado