Quotes related to Romans 5:3-5
In the Christian faith, God really puts suffering front and center. He doesn't get squeamish about it.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
God never got around to creating a substitute for experience.
— Adrian Rogers
Our afflictions would trouble us much less if we knew God's reason for sending them.
— Billy Graham
Sickness has frequently been of more use to the saints of God than health has.
— Charles Spurgeon
In the same way that a powerful medicine cures an illness, so illness itself is a medicine to cure passion. And there is much profit of soul in bearing illness quietly and giving thanks to God.
— Syncletica of Alexandria
I try to help people see that God uses pain, that pain is one of the ways God shapes us into the kind of beings He wants us to be for eternity.
— Max Lucado
Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God? I try to help people see that God uses pain, that pain is one of the ways God shapes us into the kind of beings He wants us to be for eternity.
— Max Lucado
Sometimes God teaches us how to solve our problems. Sometimes God teaches us how to face our problems
— Nicky Gumbel
God can never make us wine if we object to the fingers He uses to crush us with.
— Oswald Chambers
God honors some with great suffering and grants them the grace of martyrdom, while other are not tempted beyond their strength. But in every case it is one cross.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
What punishments of God are not gifts?
— JRR Tolkien
If everything proceeded according to their wishes, they would not understand what it means to follow God.
— John Calvin