Quotes about Suffering
Faith upholds a Christian under all trials, by assuring him that every painful dispensation is under the direction of his Lord.
- John Newton
If you allow it, [suffering] can be the means by which God brings you His greatest blessings.
- Charles Swindoll
I'm suffering very much, but am I suffering very well? That's the point!
- St. Therese of Lisieux
Just because we don't see a reason for evil and suffering doesn't mean there's not a reason for it.
- Timothy Keller
The problem of suffering is not about something but about someone.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
Death is hell and night and cold, if it is not transformed by our faith. But that is just what is so marvelous, that we can transform death.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The character of the faith that allows us to be transformed by suffering and darkness is not doubt-free certainty; rather, it is tenacious obedience.
- John Ortberg
Nothing, how little so ever it be, if it is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.
- Thomas a Kempis
Eventaully you can see that your pain was part of a much larger picture that God was carefully painting.
- James MacDonald
This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
- Malcolm Muggeridge
Still paying, still to owe. Eternal woe!
- John Milton
O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon, Irrecoverably dark, total eclipse Without all hope of day!
- John Milton