Quotes about Suffering
God never said we would understand everything along the way. He didn't promise that there wouldn't be any pain, suffering and disappointments. But He did promise that it would all work out for our good.
— Joel Osteen
Pain is a part of life...misery is an option.
— Annette Funicello
The cross is not a mere event in history; it's a way of life! Take up your cross DAILY, Jesus said!
— John Piper
If our souls be immortal, this makes amends for the frailties of life and the sufferings of this state.
— John Tillotson
Hell is life drying up.
— Joseph Campbell
Suffering will come, trouble will come - that's part of life; a sign that you are alive. If you have no suffering and no trouble, the devil is taking it easy. You are in his hand.
— Mother Teresa
Every Warrior of the Light has suffered for the most trivial of reasons.
— Paulo Coelho
Jesus Christ has taken the lead on the way of the cross. He has suffered first. He does not drive us toward suffering but shares it with us, wanting us to have life and to have it in abundance.
— Pope John Paul II
Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing.
— George Eliot
Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.
— Elie Wiesel
You are not Christ's disciple, in the sense of following him, if this is not your way of life: rejected and slain daily!
— Francis Schaeffer
God will make right all that is wrong, He will take away the lingering effect of sin and what's not right in our lives. He knows how painful life in this world can be.
— Joshua Harris