Arthur Hugh Clough Quotes

Some people who suffer run away from God, and I know the tendency, but instead I just run to Him.

Suffering will get you great footage. I don't know about closer to God. Although there have been times when I've suffered to the point where I think I might be about to meet him.

I never question God. Sometimes I say, 'Why me? Why do I have such a hard life? Why do I have this disease? Why do I have siblings who died?' But then I think and say, 'Why not me?'

You never know God is all you need until God is all you have.

When you live with the Devil you learn there's a God very quickly.

He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.

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

Let me say that I consider myself a deep believer in the reality of God. I might define God quite differently from the way some people in the Christian faith would do so, but I do not doubt the reality of that experience.

For the most part, people use God as Santa Claus.

For me, and I suspect for lots of other people too, bad things actually sometimes make you think more about faith and the fact that you're not facing these things on your own.

Suffering turns men towards their creator.

It's incongruous that the older we get, the more likely we are to turn in the direction of religion. Less vivid and intense ourselves, closer to the grave, we begin to conceive of ourselves as immortal.

Adversity reminds men of religion.

Trials can be hard, if you don't know God.

Adversity makes men remember God.

Anyone, without exception, can know God if they really want to simply by praying, by honestly telling Him that they want to know Him. He always responds to honest seekers. Jesus promised, 'All who seek, find.'

People often ask me whether I believe in God. I haven't seen God. But I think that one's beliefs are one's God - and, in those terms, yes, God is there.

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

It is the heart which perceives God and not the reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not by the reason.

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.

A religion without mystery must be a religion without God.

Religion has convinced us that there's something else entirely other than concerns about suffering. There's concerns about what God wants, there's concerns about what's going to happen in the afterlife.

I seemed so different from other kids; I grew up in church and felt a connection with God, and a lot of kids my age really didn't understand that.

It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life.

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