Quotes about Suffering
When God sets His heart on you, you will be tried often. But the longer and harder your affliction, the more deeply God has set His heart on you, to show you His love and care.
— David Wilkerson
The cross reminds us that there is no true love without suffering, there is no gift of life without pain.
— Pope Benedict XVI
If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated suffering.
— Adoniram Judson
If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the greatest suffering of all, loneliness.
— Peter Kreeft
One of the greatest evidences of God's love to those that love him is, to send them afflictions, with grace to bear them.
— John Wesley
God's love does not protect us from suffering. God's love protects us in the midst of suffering.
— Hans Kung
Like the Good Samaritan, may we not be ashamed of touching the wounds of those who suffer, but try to heal them with concrete acts of love.
— Pope Francis
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.
— JC Ryle
Love sweetens pain; and when one loves God, one suffers for His sake with joy and courage.
— Brother Lawrence
Love and sacrifice are closely linked, like the sun and the light. We cannot love without suffering and we cannot suffer without love.
— Gianna Beretta Molla
God is Love. We eventually have to ask ourselves the question; why was Love nailed to a cross?
— Pope John Paul II
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.
— JI Packer