Inspirational Quotes on Suffering

“Tears are often the telescope by which men see far into heaven.”

“To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.”

“At the timberline where the storms strike with the most fury, the sturdiest trees are found.”

“For one drop calls another down, till we are drowned in seas of grief.”

“The servant of Christ must never be surprised if he has to drink of the same cup with His Lord.”

“Suffering is the strongest and closest fellowship in the world.”

“Difficulty excites the mind to the dignity which sustains and finally conquers misfortunes, and the ordeal refines while it chastens.”

“God brings men into deep waters not to drown them, but to cleanse them.”

“God makes crosses of great variety; He makes some of iron and lead, that look as if they must crush; some of straw, that seem so light, and yet are no less difficult to carry; some He makes of precious stones and gold, that dazzle the eye and excite the envy of spectators, but in reality are as well able to crucify as those which are so much dreaded.”

“Sorrow comes soon enough without despondency. It does a man no good to carry around a lightning-rod to attract trouble.”

“The chief secret of comfort lies in not suffering trifles to vex us, and in prudently cultivating an undergrowth of small pleasures, since very few great ones are let on long leases.”

“This is one of the sad conditions of life, that experience is not transmissible. No man will learn from the suffering of another; he must suffer himself.”

“That which thou dost not understand when thou readest, thou shalt understand in the day of thy visitation; for many secrets of religion are not perceived till they be felt, and are not felt but in the day of calamity.”

“It is seldom that God sends such calamities upon man as men bring upon themselves and suffer willingly.”

“Adversity is hard to endure, and can even be harder to understand. If God were really in control, why would He allow the tragic auto accident or crucial job loss? How could He permit cancer in a loved one or the death of a child? Grappling with His concern for us we ask, "Why is God allowing this?" or "What have I done wrong?”

“Whomever the Lord has adopted and deemed worthy of His fellowship ought to prepare themselves for a hard, toilsome, and unquiet life, crammed with very many and various kinds of evil.”

“Thou, Lord, bruisest me, but I am abundantly satisfied, since it is from Thy hand.”

“You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.”

“I know my own soul, how feeble and puny it is: I know the magnitude of this ministry, and the great difficulty of the work; for more stormy billows vex the soul of the priest than the gales which disturb the sea.”

“If there were no tribulation, there would be no rest; if there were no winter, there would be no summer.”