Quotes about Suffering

It is not bad," Santiago said. "And pain does not matter to a man.

When I have Suffered sufficiently, the Lord will then take me to himself

Our faith is anchored to a miscarriage of justice. The worst possible thing happened to the best possible person.

What if others suffer shipwreck, yet none that sail with Jesus have ever been stranded yet.

My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray.

The Lord never lays more on us, in the way of chastisement, than our state of heart makes needful; so that whilst He smites with the one hand, He supports with the other.

Imagine no more tears, no more sorrow, no more pain... and one day we will forever be with Jesus.

Pain is the doorway into deep. Know what I mean? And tragedy is nature's great purifier. It burns away the fakeness, fear and arrogance that is of the ego. Returns us to our brilliance and genius, if you have the courage to go into that which wounds you. Suffering yields many rewards, including empathy, originality, relatability and authenticity.

As C. S. Lewis famously said, 'God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: [evil] is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

Pain and suffering are frequently the means by which we become motivated to finally surrender to God and to seek the cure of Christ.

I believe all suffering contains at least the opportunity for good," came his response, "but not everyone actualizes that potential. Not all of us learn and benefit from suffering; that's where free will comes in. One prisoner in a concentration camp will react quite differently from another, because of the choice each one makes to respond to the environment.

At the time of the crucifixion, the disciples couldn't see how anything good could result; similarly, as we face struggles and trials and suffering, we sometimes can't imagine good emerging. But we've seen how it did in the case of Jesus, and we can trust it will in our case too. For instance, the greatest Christians in history seem to say that their sufferings ended up bringing them the closest to God—so this is the best thing that could happen, not the worst.