Quotes about Suffering
It is good for me to be afflicted that I may die wholly to this world and all that is in it.
— David Brainerd
Storms are not punishment for lack of obedience; oftentimes they are the result of obedience!
— David Jeremiah
The strangest disease I have seen in this country seems really to be broken-heartedness, and it attacks free men who have been captured and made slaves. My attention was drawn to it when the elder brother of Syde bin Habib was killed in Rua by a night attack, from a spear being pitched through his tent into his side. Syde then vowed vengeance for the blood of his brother, and assaulted all he could find, killing the elders, and making the young men captives. He
— David Livingstone
I admit that I deserve death and hell, what of it? For I know One who suffered and made satisfaction on my behalf. His name is Jesus Christ, Son of God, and where He is there I shall be also!
— Martin Luther
Comfort is the god of our generation, so suffering is seen as a problem to be solved, and not a providence from God.
— Matt Chandler
God can take the good, bad and the bitter and create a masterpiece called your destiny.
— Tony Evans
God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him.
— Jurgen Moltmann
God chooses what we go through; we choose how we go through it.
— John Maxwell
The Christian icon is not the Stars and Stripes but a cross-flag, and its emblem is not a donkey, an elephant, or an eagle, but a slaughtered lamb.
— Shane Claiborne
Even if we may not always understand why God allows certain things to happen to us, we can know He is able to bring good out of evil, and triumph out of suffering.
— Billy Graham
I would not trade the difficult years for all the prosperity in the world. God knows what each one of us must suffer in order to be conformed to the image of Christ.
— Paul Washer
God will not protect you from anything that will make you more like Jesus.
— Elisabeth Elliot