Quotes about God Suffering

God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. Votes: 2

But men never violate the laws of God without suffering the consequences, sooner or later. Votes: 2

When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one. Votes: 2

In the Christian faith, God really puts suffering front and center. He doesn't get squeamish about it. Votes: 2

Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it. Votes: 2

But He Himself hath sealed your sufferings, and their thus saying condemns God, and His sealing condemns them. Votes: 2

I do not believe that God has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson. Votes: 2

Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation. Votes: 2

God has been good to me. My faith has been good to me in the moments of deepest suffering, doubt and fear. Votes: 2

Christianity affirms that Jesus severed the link between suffering and deserving once for all on Calvary. God put the ledgers away and settled the accounts. Votes: 2

God has created us and poured love into our hearts so that we may do our best to alleviate the suffering that is around us. Votes: 2

I read God's word when I am not suffering. And then I don't have to all of a sudden establish this habit when I am hurting. Votes: 2

Among the remedies which it has pleased Almighty God to give to man to relieve his sufferings, none is so universal and so efficacious as opium. Votes: 2

Because we don't see the evil destroyed now and thus experience the suffering that evil inevitably inflicts, we are tempted to doubt God's existence and goodness. Votes: 2

There's nothing like suffering to remind us how not in control we actually are, how little power we ultimately have, and how much we ultimately need God. Votes: 2

Why do people hate God?... One, they hate the moral standard. Two, they hate the way he's transforming the world even in the midst of suffering and tragedy. Votes: 2

Hope is in the name of God, the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Hope is when you compare your suffering to the infinite, immeasurable love and grace of God. Votes: 2

Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from God's suffering for us. The way out of our loss and hurt is in and through. Votes: 2

God be praised for his gracious long suffering towards me in sparing my life so long. Grant, gracious God, that I may make a good use of the time that thou mayest be pleased yet to grant me for repentance. Votes: 2

The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust - not only for all the gifts that I receive from God, but gratitude for all the suffering. Because in that purifying experience, suffering has often been the shortest path to intimacy with God. Votes: 2

Only the suffering God can help. Votes: 0

Suffering brings me so close to God. Votes: 0

You can't do God's work without suffering. Votes: 0

May God give comfort to the suffering souls. Votes: 0

Suffering is the way for Realization of God. Votes: 0

In times of suffering, may God strengthen you. Votes: 0

How could a good, all-powerful God allow suffering? Votes: 0

God is with us, not beyond us, in suffering. Votes: 0

Eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions god's infinite love. Votes: 0

Accept suffering as a part of God's tenderizing process. Votes: 0

Heaven is God's answer to any suffering you may face. Votes: 0

O Seeker, pain and suffering make one aware of God. Votes: 0

By suffering God's will, we learn to do God's will. Votes: 0

God can be found only in suffering and the cross. Votes: 0

God wrote a book on suffering, and its name is Jesus. Votes: 0

The power of faith to ease our suffering is God's love. Votes: 0

Suffering is how we test our love especially our love for God. Votes: 0

We must be instruments of God's compassion to those who are suffering. Votes: 0

God is glorified through healing and deliverance, not through sickness and suffering. Votes: 0

Suffering is arguably God's choicest tool in shaping the character of Christ in us. Votes: 0

Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional. Votes: 0

Whoever does not know God hidden in suffering does not know God at all. Votes: 0

Joy is not necessarily the absence of suffering, it is the presence of God. Votes: 0

God points to the peaceful attitude of suffering people to teach others about Himself. Votes: 0

There is nothing wrong with God's creation. Mystery and Suffering only exist in the mind. Votes: 0

God will either shield you from suffering or give you unfailing strength to bear it. Votes: 0

Suffering is unbearable if you aren't certain that God is for you and with you. Votes: 0

Love of God is pure when joy and suffering inspire an equal degree of gratitude. Votes: 0

No one was ever called by God to greater suffering than God's only begotten Son. Votes: 0

The most remarkable thing about suffering is that God can use it for our good. Votes: 0

The greatest good suffering can do for me is to increase my capacity for God. Votes: 0

I can't go around believing in a God that believes suffering is good for me. Votes: 0

Suffering borne in the will quietly and patiently is a continual, very powerful prayer before God. Votes: 0

God's love does not protect us from suffering. God's love protects us in the midst of suffering. Votes: 0

God is to be recognized in all that exists, all that is charming, suffering, blooming or drooping. Votes: 0

Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross. Votes: 0

The children of God all have a cross to bear. A suffering Savior generally has suffering disciples. Votes: 0

Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire. Votes: 0

If you allow it, [suffering] can be the means by which God brings you His greatest blessings. Votes: 0

Still to the sufferer comes, as due from God, a glory that to suffering owes its birth. Votes: 0

We don't need answers and explanations as much as we need God's presence in and through the suffering. Votes: 0

...the central message of the Bible is about God redeeming a humanity that is in trouble and suffering. Votes: 0

In sorrow and suffering, go straight to God with confidence, and you will be strengthened, enlightened and instructed. Votes: 0

It is true that God's power triumphs over everything, but humble and suffering prayer prevails over God Himself. Votes: 0

God wants us to be totally dependent on Him, and suffering seems to bring us to that point. Votes: 0

Worry is momentary atheism crying out for correction by trust in a good, sovereign God. Suffering breaks self-reliance. Votes: 0

Perhaps love is a compelling necessity imposed on man by God that has something to do with suffering Votes: 0

In the highest class of God's school of suffering we learn not resignation nor patience, but rejoicing in tribulation. Votes: 0

If God is treated as God during suffering, then suffering can reveal and present him in all his greatness. Votes: 0

God's anger is the toil and suffering of man. Man's anger is the love and worship of his enemy. Votes: 0

This is God's universal purpose for all Christian suffering: more contentment in God and less satisfaction in the world. Votes: 0

No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not. Votes: 0

God so loved us and hates suffering that he was willing to come down and get involved in it. Votes: 0

Remember this: all suffering comes to an end. And whatever you suffer authentically, God has suffered from it first. Votes: 0

Suffering prepares you by training you to trust God and know that He is always at work in your life. Votes: 0

When you mature in your relationship with God you realize how suffering and patience are like eating your spiritual vegetables. Votes: 0

We may be confident in this: that in the pain of our suffering is the presence of a faithful God. Votes: 0

The greatness of our love of God must be tested by the desire we have of suffering for His love. Votes: 0

A God who did not abolish suffering-worse , a God who abolished sin precisely by suffering-is a scandal to the modern mind. Votes: 0

I can't prove to you that there is a God, I just know. All this suffering has to have a reason. Votes: 0

The believer in God has to account for the existence of unjust suffering; the atheist has to account for everything else. Votes: 0

When we behold the face of God, all memories of pain and suffering will vanish. Our souls shall be totally healed. Votes: 0

A world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God. Votes: 0

That Religion is not devotion, but work and suffering for the love of God; this is the true doctrine of Mystics. Votes: 0

Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation. Votes: 0

The call of the gospel is for the church to implement the victory of God in the world through suffering love. Votes: 0

The God of the Bible takes our misery and suffering so seriously that he was willing to take it on himself Votes: 0

Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better. Votes: 0

The school of suffering never graduates any students, so ask God to teach to you the lessons He wants you to learn. Votes: 0

The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God. Votes: 0

God's power rests not on totalizing omnipotence, but on His ability to alchemize suffering, tragedy, and loss into wisdom, understanding, and joy. Votes: 0

God is so committed to your ultimate joy that he was willing to plunge into the greatest depths of suffering himself for you. Votes: 0

God also allows suffering so that we might learn what it means to depend on Him, not on our own strength and resources. Votes: 0

The SF [Supreme Fascist, i.e. God] created us to enjoy our suffering. The sooner we die, the sooner we defy His plans. Votes: 0

Comfort is the god of our generation, so suffering is seen as a problem to be solved, and not a providence from God. Votes: 0

God always seems bigger to those who need him most. And suffering is the tool he uses to help us need him more. Votes: 0

Satan can imitate God, but he cannot duplicate Him - God is the only One who can deliver us from our pain and suffering. Votes: 0

As the medieval mind blamed God for human suffering, so the modern mind blames 'the system' for the industrial blight and plague of technology. Votes: 0

The Ventoux is a god of Evil, to which sacrifices must be made. It never forgives weakness and extracts an unfair tribute of suffering. Votes: 0

To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience. Votes: 0

Judged by the normal standards of human affairs, the lives of men and women of God may look overburdened with suffering, and even inconclusive. Votes: 0

To choose suffering makes no sense at all; to choose God's will in the midst of our suffering makes all the sense in the world. Votes: 0

My dear brother, let God make of you what He will, He will end all with consolation, and shall make glory out of your suffering. Votes: 0

If Strength comes through Suffering, why then I should be the strongest of all women, yet I am the weakest. God help me. Help me. Votes: 0

Before Jesus leads His disciples into suffering, humiliation, disgrace, and disdain, He summons them and shows Himself to them as the Lord in God's glory. Votes: 0

Poor God, how often He is blamed for all the suffering in the world. It's like praising Satan for allowing all the good that happens. Votes: 0

The deepest level of worship is praising God inspite of pain, trusting Him during a trial, surrendering while suffering, and loving Him when He seems distant. Votes: 0

Suddenly you're ripped into being alive. And life is pain, and life is suffering, and life is horror, but my god you're alive and its spectacular. Votes: 0

Suffering can serve us. Suffering tests our trust in God's promises. And we have a great interest in knowing the truth about our trust in Him. Votes: 0

We, peopling the void air, Make Gods to whom to impute The ills we ought to bear; With God and Fate to rail at, suffering easily. Votes: 0

What the word God means is the mystery really. It's the mystery that we face as humans the mystery of existence, of suffering and of death. Votes: 0

By suffering we are able to give something to God. The gift of pain, of suffering is a big thing and cannot be accomplished in Paradise. Votes: 0

Suffering did different things to different people...Some souls became tempered, unshakable in their faith, while others became twisted and mis-shapen, throwing off all connection to God. Votes: 0

I find God in the suffering eyes reflected in mine. If this is how you are revealed to me, this is how I will forever seek you. Votes: 0

Through suffering we have endured the assaults of time; reverses have ever been our beginning; and out of the depths God has gathered us to his heart. Votes: 0

God deliberately chooses weak, suffering and unlikely candidates to get His work done, so that in the end, the glory goes to God and not to the person. Votes: 0

We are suffering from our own Karma. It is not the fault of God. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should God be blamed?. . . Votes: 0

God would turn the world around to find suffering in order to give it to a soul upon whom He has set His Divine gaze with ineffable love. Votes: 0

God will judge us, Mr. Harris, by--by what we did to relieve the suffering of our fellow human beings. I don't think God cares what doctrine we embrace. Votes: 0

God wants to free us from ourselves, and there's nothing like suffering to show us that we need something bigger than our abilities and our strength and our explanations. Votes: 0

Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever. Votes: 0

Ultimately, suffering is always political with all kinds of justifications - there are those who justify Israel's occupation of land as being a fulfillment of what God had promised. Votes: 0

Pain and suffering are the dark strands through the tapestry of your life, providing the shadows that give depth and dimension to the masterpiece God is fashioning within you. Votes: 0

The Gospel gives our suffering personal and cosmic meaning, by connecting our pain to the pain of others, and finally, by connecting us to the very pain of God. Votes: 0

God honors some with great suffering and grants them the grace of martyrdom, while other are not tempted beyond their strength. But in every case it is one cross. Votes: 0

When pain and suffering strike, our faith is well founded if it is standing on the promises of God. For all of God's promises have strong confirmation in Christ. Votes: 0

We may not ever fully understand why God allows the suffering that devastates our lives. We may not ever find the right answers to how we'll dig ourselves out. Votes: 0

The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word "love." Votes: 0

Do not think that if you surrender to God you will be loser. You will not lose anything except bondage, frustration and suffering. That is all you will lose. Votes: 0

For the life of the believer, one thing is beautifully and abundantly true: God's chief concern in your suffering is to be with you and be himself for you. Votes: 0

Friends, suffering, marriage, environment, study and recreation are influence which shape character. The strongest influence, if you are generous enough to yield to it, is the grace of God. Votes: 0