Quotes related to Romans 5:3-4
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
We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of God. Amazing grace is no longer amazing to us.
— RC Sproul
Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I am the wheat of God, and am ground by the teeth of the wild beasts, that I may be found the pure bread of God.
— Ignatius of Antioch
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
It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results.
— John Calvin
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
The the question whether I am a pessimist or an optimist, I answer that my knowledge is pessimistic, but my willing and hope are optimistic.
— Albert Schweitzer
God has never deserted our people. Through the ages Jews have had to suffer, but through the ages they've gone on living, and the centuries of suffering have only made them stronger.
— Anne Frank
God uses prisons to train people for future roles of leadership or martyrdom.
— Charles Colson
Most of the grand truths of God have to be learned by trouble; they must be burned into us with the hot iron of affliction, otherwise we shall not truly receive them.
— Charles Spurgeon
God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.
— Mahatma Gandhi