Quotes about Suffering

Take Christ in with you under your yoke, and let patience have her perfect work.

We're programmed for suffering, not joy. The masochism is built in at a very early age. You're supposed to work and suffer - and the trouble is: you believe it.

God uses broken things. It takes broken soil to produce a crop, broken clouds to give rain, broken grain to give bread, broken bread to give strength. It is the broken alabaster box that gives forth perfume. It is Peter, weeping bitterly, who returns to greater power than ever.

Where are the marks of the cross in your life? Are there any points of identification with your Lord? Alas, too many Christians wear medals but carry no scars

If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

Maybe the only enemy is that we don't like the way reality is *now* and therefore wish it would go away fast. but what we find as practitioners is that nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.

We think that by protecting ourselves from suffering we are being kind to ourselves. the truth is, we only become more fearful, more hardened, and more alienated.

Even Believers can yield to the wrong spirits. Peter once rebuked Jesus, telling Him that He would not suffer.

Job was still in God's will even when he lost his children, wealth, and health.