Henry Cloud Quotes

Defeat may prove to have been the only path to resurrection, despite its ugliness.

The Cross is the Word through which God has responded to evil in the world.

Sin and death and suffering and war and poverty are not natural—they are the devastating results of our rebellion against God. We long for a return to Paradise—a perfect world, without the corruption of sin, where God walks with us and talks with us in the cool of the day.

For neither good nor evil can last for ever; and so it follows that as evil has lasted a long time, good must now be close at hand.

To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as long as you live.

Reinette: One may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel.

Where evil may be done, it is right to ponder; where only suffered, know the shortest pause is much too long.

In the face of horror ... there is no other answer than the cross of Christ: Love that descends to the abyss of evil.

Has it occurred to you that transmigration is at once an explanation and a justification of the evil of the world? If the evils we suffer are the result of sins committed in our past lives, we can bear them with resignation and hope that if in this one we strive toward virtue out future lives will be less afflicted.

Long is the way and hard, that out of hell leads up to light.

Find the best in everybody. Just keep waiting no matter how long it takes. No one is all evil. Everybody has a good side, just keep waiting, it will come out.

Memory haunts me from age to age, and passion leads me by the hand--evil have I done, and with sorrow have I made acquaintance from age to age, and from age to age evil shall I do, and sorrow shall I know till my redemption comes.

Much of what happens in our world is evil and bad, but God specializes in bringing good out of it.

Even if we may not always understand why God allows certain things to happen to us, we can know He is able to bring good out of evil, and triumph out of suffering.

We need to 'go out,' then, in order to experience our own anointing, its power and its redemptive efficacy: to the 'outskirts' where there is suffering, bloodshed, blindness that longs for sight, and prisoners in thrall to many evil masters.

And I realized that I’d tolerated him this long because of self-doubt.

The evils of war are great in their endurance, and have a long reckoning for ages to come.

The evil which one suffers patiently as inevitable seems insupportable as soon as he conceives the idea of escaping from it.

The oldest and best known evil was ever more supportable than one that was new and untried.

Jesus doesn't give an explanation for the pain and sorrow of the world. He comes where the pain is most acute and takes it upon himself. Jesus doesn't explain why there is suffering, illness, and death in the world. He brings healing and hope. He doesn't allow the problem of evil to be the subject of a seminar. He allows evil to do its worst to him. He exhausts it, drains its power, and emerges with new life.

When there exists anywhere a state of suffering, a wrong, a condition of affairs that men of feeling deplore and that troubles the conscience of the upright, to become resigned to it is wicked. Although the evil flaunts itself before our eyes, and no remedy is in sight, we must go and seek a remedy. In the creation of the God of Justice, evil can be but a transitory state.

One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long.

Justice is not Healing. Healing cometh only by suffering and patience, and maketh no demand, not even for Justice. Justice worketh only within the bonds of things as they are... and therefore though Justice is itself good and desireth no further evil, it can but perpetuate the evil that was, and doth not prevent it from the bearing of fruit in sorrow.

Mortality has its compensations; one is that all evils are transitory, another that better times may come.