Quotes about Suffering

C. S. Lewis said it best: "We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

For, as I have often told you before and now say again even with tears, many live as enemies of the cross of Christ.

I know that war is very cruel and that life is harder when you aren't able to live in the place you called home.

One question such events provoke is "What kind of God allows this to happen?" Another question we might ask is, "What kind of creatures are human beings that we should cause and allow this to happen?

Simone Weil was absolutely right- beauty and affliction are the only two things that can pierce our hearts. Because this is so true, we must have a measure of beauty in our lives proportionate to our affliction. No more. Much more. Is this not God's prescription for us? Just take a look around.

Until a man learns to deal with the fact that life is hard, he will spend his days chasing the wrong thing, using all his energies trying to make life comfortable, soft, nice, and that is no way for any man to spend his life.

Women who are stunningly beautiful are women who have had their hearts enlarged by suffering.

History is riddled with blood and sin.

We do not have a high priest who is unable to sympathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are. (HEBREWS 4:15)

I don't trust a man who hasn't suffered; I don't let a man get close to me who hasn't faced his wound.

You cannot conceive how I ache to be with you: how I would die for one hour...

I left poor Scylla in a niche and fled. My fever'd parchings up, my scathing dread Met palsy half way: soon these limbs became 640 Gaunt, wither'd, sapless, feeble, cramp'd, and lame.