Joseph Joubert Quotes

When you are instructed by affliction, you can become a comforter to the afflicted.

For every wound, the ointment of time.

When my wife got sick, I didn't understand why God was doing what he was doing.

Sympathy is charming, but it does not make up for pain.

' Torn' is hopeful. It's a book that meets you in your pain and shows you how to move forward with life and in your walk with God.

Time removes distress.

Time doesn't heal all wounds; God heals wounds.

There are spaces of sorrow only God can touch.

Time doesn't heal anything... only God can heal

To know that God knows everything about me and yet loves me is indeed my ultimate consolation.

It will comfort us when we must wait in distress for the Savior's promised relief that He knows, from experience, how to heal and help us. The Book of Mormon gives us the certain assurance of His power to comfort. And faith in that power will give us patience as we pray and work and wait for help. He could have known how to succor us simply by revelation, but He chose to learn by His own personal experience.

If you tell your troubles to God, you put them into the grave; they will never rise again when you have committed them to Him. If you roll your burden anywhere else, it will roll back again like the stone of Sisyphus.

It's a long life, sweetheart, and time heals all wounds.

God who gives the wound gives the salve.

There is no sweeter fellowship with Christ than to bring our wounds and our sores to him.

There is always a comforting thought in time of trouble when it is not our trouble.

In the midst of sorrow, faith draws the sting out of every trouble, and takes out the bitterness from every affliction.

Let me encourage you to continue to wait with faith. God may not perform a miracle, but he is trustworthy to touch you and make you whole where there used to be a hole

O you who have borne even heavier things, to these too, God will grant an end!

I think there is, not in the sense that I enjoy it, but that it's an important question. It's the question, "Does the presence of pain mean God doesn't care? Does God not love me anymore?" I think that's a very common connection we tend to make. I see that a lot in my own life and in the lives of others.

God answers our prayers not because we are good, but because He is good.

We live in a broken world - and for the life of me I can't get it all right. But Jesus takes all our broken messes and He makes them, by His grace, into a mosaic of grace.

Blessed art Thou, Lord, who giveth suffering As a divine remedy for our impurities.

My first reaction in pastoral care is not to explain. And again, I don't think the primary purpose of the Bible is to explain suffering. I never have, because the actual explanations are often inadequate. I think the primary purpose of Scripture is to say I am all you need in this suffering and I need comfort.

Calamity is a blessing when it brings one to God. --- Hadassah