Quotes related to 2 Corinthians 4:8-9
When we think of "strong" faith as something that should be free of uncertainty or crises, I believe we have gotten wrong an important part of who God is and how the Christian life really works.
— Peter Enns
As it was, the heat consumed me by day and the frost by night, and sleep fled from my eyes.
— Genesis 31:40
the men of Israel would turn in the battle. When the Benjamites had begun to strike them down, killing about thirty men of Israel, they said, “They are defeated before us as in the first battle.”
— Judges 20:39
I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? After all, the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me.”
— Ruth 1:21
And David was greatly distressed because the people spoke of stoning him, because the soul of every man grieved for his sons and daughters. But David found strength in the LORD his God.
— 1 Samuel 30:6
Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
— Job 5:7
Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.
— Job 16:7
I was at ease, but He shattered me; He seized me by the neck and crushed me. He has set me up as His target;
— Job 16:12
He breaks me with wound upon wound; He rushes me like a mighty warrior.
— Job 16:14
My eyes have grown dim with grief, and my whole body is but a shadow.
— Job 17:7
My skin and flesh cling to my bones; I have escaped by the skin of my teeth.
— Job 19:20
And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction grip me.
— Job 30:16