3,815 Quotes About Suffering

I have to ask myself how I can possibly expect to know Jesus as he would want to be known if my life remains unscathed by trouble and grief. How can I hope to grasp anything of God's heart for this broken planet if I never weep because its brokenness touches me and breaks my heart? How can I reflect his image if I never share in his sufferings? And how will any of us ever learn to treasure his hesed and grace if we never experience phases where these blessings seem absent?

The cause of war is fictional, but the suffering is 100 per cent real. This is exactly why we should strive to distinguish fiction from reality.

She suggested I keep a log of my dreams as a way of tracking the 'waning intensity of suffering.''I don't like the term "dream journal,"' she told me at our in-person appointment in June. 'I prefer "night vision log.

At any moment your Simon of Cyrene will appear. God uses people to perform His will. Someone is going to be compelled by the Holy Ghost to come into your path of suffering, reach out and help.

Indeed, our pain has a purpose. All of it. If we do not believe this, it only means we have not yet turned the corner into trusting in Him more than our pain. This is what Jesus can do with pain, any pain, given to Him. When we surrender our suffering to Him, He makes it into something beautiful, powerful, life changing. But there is something He cannot heal—the pain we refuse to give to Him. And this is pain that destroys.

Depression, which lives below the horizon, is the result of painting and entertaining negative imagery - most of which has not taken place in reality. Get up, move, and appreciate that which is given. What is lacking is usually material and heavily influenced by external forces. Don't play yourself, save yourself.

Sometimes we suffer too much reality in the space of a single night.

In the greatest trial, we behold the greatness of our great God.

The soul suffers without strength in spirit.