Inspirational Quotes on Suffering

“This is God's universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world.”

“Humility alone unites patience with love; without which it is impossible to draw profit from suffering; or indeed, to avoid complaint, especially when we think we have given no occasion for what men make us suffer.”

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

“The readiest way to escape from our sufferings is, to be willing they should endure as long as God pleases.”

“That execrable sum of all villainies commonly called the slave-trade.”

“Happy are they who are sick, yea, or lose their life, for having done a good work.”

“Real pain can alone cure us of imaginary ills.”

“Heartache forces us to embrace God out of desparate, urgent need. God is never closer than when your heart is aching.”

“The greatest good suffering can do for me is to increase my capacity for God.”

“Most of the verses written about praise in God's Word were voiced by people faced with crushing heartaches, injustice, treachery, slander, and scores of other difficult situations.”

“You don't have to be alone in your hurt! Comfort is yours. Joy is an option. And it's all been made possible by your Saviour. He went without comfort so you might have it. He postponed joy so you might share in it. He willingly chose isolation so you might never be alone in your hurt and sorrow.”

“Whatever troubles are weighing you down are not chains. They are featherweight when compared to the glory yet to come. With a sweep of a prayer and the praise of a child's heart, God can strip away any cobweb.”

“Where do you run for help? When you are in trouble, what is your first instinct? Do you run to others or to God? Is it usually the counsel of another rather than the counsel found in waiting upon God in prayer? Why is this the way it is? Why do we run to man before we run to God?”

“Snuggle in God's arms. When you are hurting, when you feel lonely, left out. let Him cradle you, comfort you, reassure you of His all-sufficient power and love.”

“The disappointment has come - not because God desires to hurt you or make you miserable or to demoralize you or ruin your life or keep you from ever knowing happiness. He wants you to be perfect and complete in every aspect, lacking nothing. It's not the easy times that make you more like Jesus, but the hard times.”

“They gave our Master a crown of thorns. Why do we hope for a crown of roses?”

“The human heart is like the millstone in a mill; when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds the wheat into flour. If you put no wheat in, it still grinds on, but then it is itself it grinds and slowly wears away.”

“Every tear of sorrow sown by the righteous springs up a pearl.”

“Our prayers are heard, not because we are in earnest, not because we suffer, but because Jesus suffered.”

“We all know people who have been made much meaner and more irritable and more intolerable to live with by suffering: it is not right to say that all suffering perfects. It only perfects one type of person - the one who accepts the call of God in Christ Jesus.”