Inspirational Quotes on Suffering

“Sufferings will be sweet and pleasant to us while we are with Him; and the greatest pleasures will be, without Him, a cruel punishment to us.”

“You need not cry very loud; he is nearer to us than we think.”

“It is by human avarice or human stupidity, not by the churlishness of nature, that we have poverty and overwork.”

“We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness.”

“Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.”

“We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn.'”

“Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.”

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”

“How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.”

“Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief.”

“The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.”

“Many men owe the grandeur of their lives to their tremendous difficulties.”

“Our sorrows are all, like ourselves, mortal. There are no immortal sorrows for immortal souls. They come, but blessed be God, they also go. Like birds of the air, they fly over our heads. But they cannot make their abode in our souls. We suffer today, but we shall rejoice tomorrow.”

“The person who bears and suffers evils with meekness and silence, is the sum of a Christian man.”

“When you suffer and lose, that does not mean you are being disobedient to God. In fact, it might mean you're right in the centre of His will. The path of obedience is often marked by times of suffering and loss.”

“You may suffer and yet be un-Christlike, but no man can be Christlike and fail to suffer. If you ever, by the grace of God, become a partaker of the divine nature you must also inevitably become a partaker of His sufferings.”

“The only man who ever suffered before Christ was that servant who had his ear cut off. But most likely in a moment afterward he had it on, and very likely it was a better ear than ever, because whatever the Lord does He does it well. No man ever lost his life with Him.”

“A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world.”

“To endure the cross is not tragedy; it is the suffering which is the fruit of an exclusive allegiance to Jesus Christ.”

“We must learn to regard people less in light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer.”