Quotes related to Romans 5:3-5
In God's garden of grace, even broken trees bear fruit...
— Rick Warren
Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
— Virginia Woolf
If you are facing trouble right now, don't ask, "Why me?" Instead ask, "What do you want me to learn?" Then trust God and keep on doing what's right.
— Rick Warren
What once seemed such a curse has become a blessing. All the agony that threatened to destroy my life now seems like the fertile ground for greater trust, stronger hope, and deeper love.
— Henri Nouwen
We must stop regarding unpleasant or unexpected things as interruptions of real life. The truth is that interruptions are real life.
— CS Lewis
Every moment brings us some benediction. Even the rough hand of trial holds in its clasp for us some treasure of love.
— J.R. Miller
Our pain carves out a larger space for love to fill.
— Khalil Gibran
What if I gave thanks in the trouble, for the trouble, because the trouble is a gift that causes me to turn? What if I loved God not for His goods but for His love itself that is goodness enough?
— Ann Voskamp
I will not live an instant that I do not live in love. Whoever loves does all things without suffering, or, suffering, loves his suffering.
— St. Augustine
In spite of this trial, which takes all enjoyment from me, I can never the less, cry out, 'Lord, you fill me with joy in all that you do. For is there a joy greater than to suffer for love?'
— St. Therese of Lisieux
Each of us has a "soft spot": the place in our experience where we feel vulnerable and tender. This soft spot is inherent in appreciation and love, and it is equally inherent in pain.
— Pema Chodron
Right down there in the thick of things, we discover the love that will not die.
— Pema Chodron