Quotes related to 1 Peter 4:13
The cross is the assurance that effective prophetic criticism is done not by an outsider but always by one who must embrace the grief, enter into the death, and know the pain of the criticized one.
— Walter Brueggemann
Let's embrace the expectation that we will not be treated better than the early disciples when we share Christ the way they did.
— James MacDonald
The greatest evil is physical pain.
— St. Augustine
You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
— John Calvin
Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.
— Ignatius of Antioch
Pain is the seasoning that gives pleasure its flavor.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Christianity entails doctrines that increase the probability of the coexistence of God and suffering.
— William Lane Craig
Our glory is hidden in our pain, if we allow God to bring the gift of himself in our experience of it.
— Henri Nouwen
God wrote a book on suffering, and its name is Jesus.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from God's suffering for us. The way out of our loss and hurt is in and through.
— Henri Nouwen
For nothing, how little soever, that is suffered for God's sake, can pass without merit in the sight of God.
— Thomas a Kempis
God lets us continue to feel much of sin's sting through suffering while we're heading for heaven. This constantly reminds us of what we're being delivered from; exposing sin for the poison it is.
— Joni Eareckson Tada