Grace is God as heart surgeon, cracking open your chest, removing your heart - poisoned as it is with pride and pain - and replacing it with his own.

If the purpose of life is just to live this life and then die, it's hard to answer the purpose of pain question; but if we can help people see from an eternal perspective - that all of this is working together to prepare us for something higher than we've ever imagined, more noble than we've ever dreamed - then we discover some hope that we can hold on to.

I don't know how to answer the problem of deep pain without a deep hope in eternity.

Your pain has a purpose. Your problems, struggles, heartaches, and hassles cooperate toward one end-the glory of God.

Sometimes I wonder if we don't see Christ's love as much in the people he tolerated as in the pain he endured.

I see that a lot in my own life and in the lives of others.Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God?

The Bible teaches us that God does not cause pain, but that He uses pain and evil to advance His cause and shape His servants.

I believe for God not to allow pain to happen in the world is for Him to extract free will from the world.