Quotes about Pain
If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.
- Elbert Hubbard
Christ's crucifixion was on a hill, by a road, where everybody who passed by could not only see his pain, but also his shame. It was not done in a shadow, hidden away somewhere.
- Francis Schaeffer
This is one of the great paradoxes of suffering. Those who don't suffer much think suffering should keep people from God, while many who suffer a great deal turn to God, not from him.
- Randy Alcorn
Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
- CS Lewis
Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart - poisoned as it is with pride and pain - and replacing it with his own.
- Max Lucado
God intentionally allows you to go through painful experiences to equip you for ministry to others.
- Rick Warren
Pain is God's midwife, that helps some virtue into existence.
- Henry Ward Beecher
And I know that God made the heart the most fragile and resilient of all organs, that a lifetime of joy and pain might be encased in one mortal chamber.
- Tosca Lee
The wicked will gnaw their tongues for anguish and pain; they will curse God and look upwards. There the dogs of hell, pride, malice, revenge, rage, horror, despair, continually devout them.
- John Wesley
God can be found only in suffering and the cross.
- Martin Luther
Whatever else we may say about it, the atonement fulfills the Jewish principle that only one who has been hurt can forgive. At Calvary, God chose to be hurt.
- Philip Yancey
In the Christian faith, God really puts suffering front and center. He doesn't get squeamish about it.
- Joni Eareckson Tada