Quotes about Suffering
I believe for God not to allow pain to happen in the world is for Him to extract free will from the world.
— Max Lucado
I try to help people see that God uses pain, that pain is one of the ways God shapes us into the kind of beings He wants us to be for eternity.
— Max Lucado
Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God? I try to help people see that God uses pain, that pain is one of the ways God shapes us into the kind of beings He wants us to be for eternity.
— Max Lucado
God's greatest blessings often come costumed as disasters. Any doubters need to do nothing more than ascend the hill of Calvary.
— Max Lucado
He (Job) did not seek the Giver because of His gifts; when all gifts were removed he still sought the Giver.
— Philip Yancey
The point of the Book of Job is not suffering: where is God When It hurts? The prologue (chapters 1-2) dealt with that issue. The point of the Book of Job is faith: Where is Job when it hurts?
— Philip Yancey
Who would complain if God allowed one hour of suffering in an entire lifetime of comfort? Why complain about a lifetime that includes suffering when that lifetime is a mere hour of eternity?
— Philip Yancey
Never do I see Jesus lecturing people on the need to accept blindness or lameness as an expression of God's secret will; rather, he healed them.
— Philip Yancey
If God really wanted to punish, he'd answer all our prayers.
— Oscar Wilde
Paul welcomed hearbreak, disillusionment and tribulation for only one reason - - these things kept him immovable in his devotion to the gospel of God.
— Oswald Chambers
God can never make us wine if we object to the fingers He uses to crush us with.
— Oswald Chambers
It is one thing to fall victim to the flood or to fall prey to cancer; it is another thing to fall into the hands of the living God.
— RC Sproul