Suffering Quotes

Love without suffering does not exist.

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.

Getting over a painful experience is much like crossing monkey bars. You have to let go...to move forward.

One act of thanksgiving, when things go wrong with us, is worth a thousand thanks when things are agreeable to our inclinations.

Jesus shows us His wounds so we won't be afraid to show Him ours.

Love that that cannot suffer is not worthy of that name.

If you wake up and you're not in pain, you know you're dead.

“Any ordeal that you can survive as a human
being is an improvement in your character,
and usually an improvement in your life.”

When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending

When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That’s the message he is sending

When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and yelled up to the heavens, "Why god? Why me?" and the thundering voice of God answered, "There's just something about you that pisses me off."

God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: It is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

We're not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

Patience is more than endurance. A saint's life is in the hands of God like a bow and arrow in the hands of an archer. God is aiming at something the saint cannot see, and He stretches and strains, and every now and again the saint says--'I cannot stand anymore.' God does not heed, He goes on stretching till His purpose is in sight, then He lets fly. Trust yourself in God's hands.

Some people come and take away everything you ever accomplished in the blink of an eye.

Imagine yourself as a living house. God comes in to rebuild that house. ... He starts knocking the house about in a way that hurts abominably and does not seem to make any sense. ... You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage: but He is building a palace. He intends to come and live in it Himself.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

We suffer our way into wisdom.

I have learned now that while those who speak about one's miseries usually hurt, those who keep silence hurt more.

Acting is, to me now, artificial. Seeing people suffer is real. It couldn't be more real. Some people don't like to look at it in the face because it's painful. But if nobody does, then nothing gets done.