Quotes about Suffering

what you hear in my voice is fury, not suffering. Anger, not moral authority

Artists must be sacrificed to their art.

It isn't what happens to us that causes us to suffer; it's what we say to ourselves about what happens.

Never adopt an attitude of indifference, for if you do you will suffer for it. The weight will grow heavier and heavier.

pain may be inevitable but suffering is optional.

A fallen planet is no easy place to live. Ya, but heaven is.

Real love—it's the best, most painful thing God ever did for us.

Saul fell upon his sword to avoid suffering. Jesus stretched himself upon the cross to take away ours. Saul's suicide cheated his enemies. Jesus' sacrifice cheated death.

One drop of the sweetness of heaven is enough to take away all the sourness and bitterness of all the afflictions in the world.

That which should distinguish the suffering of believers from unbelievers is the confidence that our suffering is under the control of an all-powerful and all-loving God. Our suffering has meaning and purpose in God's eternal plan, and He brings or allows to come into our lives only that which is for His glory and our good.

All pain we experience is intended to move us closer to the goal of being holy as He is holy.

To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still.