Quotes about Suffering
He (Job) did not seek the Giver because of His gifts; when all gifts were removed he still sought the Giver.
- Philip Yancey
The point of the Book of Job is not suffering: where is God When It hurts? The prologue (chapters 1-2) dealt with that issue. The point of the Book of Job is faith: Where is Job when it hurts?
- Philip Yancey
Who would complain if God allowed one hour of suffering in an entire lifetime of comfort? Why complain about a lifetime that includes suffering when that lifetime is a mere hour of eternity?
- Philip Yancey
Never do I see Jesus lecturing people on the need to accept blindness or lameness as an expression of God's secret will; rather, he healed them.
- Philip Yancey
If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.
- Oscar Wilde
Paul welcomed hearbreak, disillusionment and tribulation for only one reason - - these things kept him immovable in his devotion to the gospel of God.
- Oswald Chambers
God can never make us wine if we object to the fingers He uses to crush us with.
- Oswald Chambers
It is one thing to fall victim to the flood or to fall prey to cancer; it is another thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
- RC Sproul
God knows what it's like to lose a son.
- Rick Warren
My dear brother, let God make of you what He will, He will end all with consolation, and shall make glory out of your suffering.
- Samuel Rutherford
Through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God ... It is folly to think to steal to heaven with a whole skin.
- Samuel Rutherford
I say somewhat facetiously, "I'm so glad I'm not God." Can you imagine being God and looking at Syria and saying: "These are my children. Look at what they're doing to each other."
- Desmond Tutu