Quotes about Suffering
Ultimately, suffering is always political with all kinds of justifications - there are those who justify Israel's occupation of land as being a fulfillment of what God had promised.
- Desmond Tutu
Before Jesus leads His disciples into suffering, humiliation, disgrace, and disdain, He summons them and shows Himself to them as the Lord in God's glory.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
God honors some with great suffering and grants them the grace of martyrdom, while other are not tempted beyond their strength. But in every case it is one cross.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A voice behind me asked, "Where is God? Where is He? Where can He be now?" and a voice within me answered: "Where? Here He is - He has been hanged here, on these gallows."
- Elie Wiesel
If there's a God in heaven, what's he waiting for? If He can't hear the children, then he must see the war.
- Elton John
God allows hardship in our lives so that our beliefs-those handholds of faith in a troubled world-will became more and more real to us and less and less theory.
- Greg Laurie
When we learn to move through suffering, rather than avoid it, then we greet it differently. We become willing to let it teach us. We even begin to see how God can use it for some larger end.
- Henri Nouwen
What punishments of God are not gifts?
- JRR Tolkien
The other gods were strong; but thou wast weak; they rode, but thou didst stumble to a throne; But to our wounds only God's wounds can speak, And not a god has wounds, but thou alone.
- John Stott
The moment passed — but the darkness is so dark, and the pain is so painful. — But I accept whatever He gives and I give whatever He takes.
- Mother Teresa
Why do bad things happen to good people? That only happened once and He volunteered.
- RC Sproul
We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
- Barbara Johnson