Quotes related to 1 Peter 1:6-7
The deepest level of worship is praising God inspite of pain, trusting Him during a trial, surrendering while suffering, and loving Him when He seems distant.
— Rick Warren
Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.
— Henry Ward Beecher
God had one Son without sin, but He never had a son without trial.
— DL Moody
Look upon your chastening as God's chariots sent to carry your soul into the high places of spiritual achievement.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
God tests His people through hardship.
— John Piper
Suffering can serve us. Suffering tests our trust in God's promises. And we have a great interest in knowing the truth about our trust in Him.
— Mark Dever
Wherever souls are being tried and ripened, in whatever commonplace and homely way, there God is hewing out the pillars for His temple.
— Phillips Brooks
A Christian's authenticity is show in difficult hours it is in difficult hours that the church grows in authenticity. Blest be God for this difficult hour in our archdiocese. Let us be worthy of it.
— Oscar Romero
If there were never any clouds (sorrows and sufferings) in our lives, we would have no faith. God does not come near us without clouds.
— Oswald Chambers
God's children improve all advantages to advance their grand end; they labour to grow better by blessings and crosses, and to make sanctified use of all things.
— Richard Sibbes
Sometimes the end God has in mind is to exercise our faith, so He brings us into straitened circumstances so that we might look up to Him and see His deliverance.
— Jerry Bridges
We're not the paragons of virtue that we'd all like to think we are. And so, to shatter that myth, God will use suffering to expose the stuff of which we're made.
— Joni Eareckson Tada