Quotes related to Romans 8:18
Heaven is God's answer to any suffering you may face.
- Max Lucado
Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God? I try to help people see that God uses pain, that pain is one of the ways God shapes us into the kind of beings He wants us to be for eternity.
- Max Lucado
Who would complain if God allowed one hour of suffering in an entire lifetime of comfort? Why complain about a lifetime that includes suffering when that lifetime is a mere hour of eternity?
- Philip Yancey
It is one thing to fall victim to the flood or to fall prey to cancer; it is another thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
- RC Sproul
Though thou loved her as thyself, As a self of purer clay, Tho' her parting dims the day, Stealing grace from all alive, Heartily know, When half-gods go, The gods arrive.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God knows what it's like to lose a son.
- Rick Warren
My dear brother, let God make of you what He will, He will end all with consolation, and shall make glory out of your suffering.
- Samuel Rutherford
Through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God ... It is folly to think to steal to heaven with a whole skin.
- Samuel Rutherford
We are Easter people living in a Good Friday world.
- Barbara Johnson
Without our suffering, our work would simply be social work, very good and helpful, but it would not be the work of Jesus Christ, not part of the Redemption.
- Mother Teresa
Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.
- Alice Hoffman
Good Friday and Easter free us to think about other things far beyond our own personal fate, about the ultimate meaning of all life, suffering, and events; and we lay hold of a great hope.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer