Quotes about Suffering

God's love does not protect us from suffering. God's love protects us in the midst of suffering.

If God has given His Son to die for us, let us beware of doubting His kindness and love in any painful providence of our daily life.

Love sweetens pain; and when one loves God, one suffers for His sake with joy and courage.

Love and sacrifice are closely linked, like the sun and the light. We cannot love without suffering and we cannot suffer without love.

God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?

Even when we cannot see the why and wherefore of God's dealings, we know that there is love in and behind them, and so we can rejoice always.

God has not abandoned us any more than he abandoned Job. He never abandons anyone on whom he has set his love; nor does Christ, the good shepherd, ever lose track of his sheep.

Every time you choose to love, you have also just chosen to die.

If the first mark of a true and living church is love, the second is suffering. The one is naturally consequent on the other. A willingness to suffer proves the genuineness of love.

There are none in hell but what have been haters of God, and so have procured His wrath and hatred on themselves; and there they shall continue to hate Him forever.

Licitis perimus omnes

The conquest of fear, especially fear of unaccountable divine beings who meddle in nature at will, means a reduction in the sum total of human pain and suffering and opens the door to the calm acceptance of a new picture of the world—a world in which nature is autonomous and where there are ideal beings who never meddle.