Quotes related to Romans 8:18
God is so committed to your ultimate joy that he was willing to plunge into the greatest depths of suffering himself for you.
- Timothy Keller
Suffering is actually at the heart of the Christian story.
- Timothy Keller
It's fun to talk about heaven, about the throne of God and Jesus and Pop and the daughter we thought we had lost but will meet again someday. But it's not fun to talk about how we got there.
- Todd Burpo
God discovers the martyr and confessor without the trial of flames and tortures, and will hereafter entitle many to the reward of actions which they had never the opportunity of performing.
- Joseph Addison
God measures out affliction to our need.
- St. John Chrysostom
Jesus makes the bitterest mouthful taste sweet.
- St. Therese of Lisieux
There are such things as consecrated griefs, sorrows that may be common to everyone but which take on a special character when accepted intelligently and offered to God in loving submission.
- AW Tozer
How could a good, all-powerful God allow suffering?
- Timothy Keller
In the Christian faith, God really puts suffering front and center. He doesn't get squeamish about it.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
Losses and crosses are heavy to bear; but when our hearts are right with God, it is wonderful how easy the yoke becomes.
- Charles Spurgeon
Ah! Justice of our God! Who else could stow Such travails new and pains as met my glance!
- Dante Alighieri
I know that God is not going to willfully hurt us. Why there is suffering is the business of the Lord, but He never seems to give us more than we can bear.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.