Quotes about Suffering
What do we find God 'doing about' this business of sin and evil?...God did not abolish the fact of evil; He transformed it. He did not stop the Crucifixion; He rose from the dead.
— Dorothy Sayers
God's design in our pain enables us to look back and say: He loves me enough to take me where I would have never wanted to go in order to produce in me what I never could have achieved on my own.
— Paul David Tripp
Christians are not so much in danger when they are persecuted as when they are admired.
— Charles Spurgeon
The readiest way to escape from our sufferings is, to be willing they should endure as long as God pleases.
— John Wesley
It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.
— CS Lewis
We cannot understand the meaning of many trials; God does not explain them. To explain a trial would be to destroy its object, which is that of calling forth simple faith and implicit obedience.
— Alfred Edersheim
What man, if he were God, would humble himself to lie in the feedbox of a donkey or to hang upon a cross?
— Martin Luther
The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Our glory is hidden in our pain, if we allow God to bring the gift of himself in our experience of it.
— Henri Nouwen
The saints rejoiced at injuries and persecutions, because in forgiving them they had something to present to God when they prayed to Him.
— Teresa of Avila
The glory of God shines, indeed, in all creatures on high and below, but never more brightly than in the cross.
— John Calvin
Whether we get to avoid pain and suffering or we must persevere in the midst of it, our deliverance comes when we're dragged from the enemy of our souls to the heart of God.
— Beth Moore