Quotes about Suffering
God knows what it's like to lose a son.
— Rick Warren
My dear brother, let God make of you what He will, He will end all with consolation, and shall make glory out of your suffering.
— Samuel Rutherford
Through many afflictions we must enter into the kingdom of God ... It is folly to think to steal to heaven with a whole skin.
— Samuel Rutherford
I say somewhat facetiously, "I'm so glad I'm not God." Can you imagine being God and looking at Syria and saying: "These are my children. Look at what they're doing to each other."
— Desmond Tutu
Ultimately, suffering is always political with all kinds of justifications - there are those who justify Israel's occupation of land as being a fulfillment of what God had promised.
— Desmond Tutu
Before Jesus leads His disciples into suffering, humiliation, disgrace, and disdain, He summons them and shows Himself to them as the Lord in God's glory.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
God honors some with great suffering and grants them the grace of martyrdom, while other are not tempted beyond their strength. But in every case it is one cross.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
A voice behind me asked, "Where is God? Where is He? Where can He be now?" and a voice within me answered: "Where? Here He is - He has been hanged here, on these gallows."
— Elie Wiesel
If there's a God in heaven, what's he waiting for? If He can't hear the children, then he must see the war.
— Elton John
God allows hardship in our lives so that our beliefs-those handholds of faith in a troubled world-will became more and more real to us and less and less theory.
— Greg Laurie
When we learn to move through suffering, rather than avoid it, then we greet it differently. We become willing to let it teach us. We even begin to see how God can use it for some larger end.
— Henri Nouwen
What punishments of God are not gifts?
— JRR Tolkien