Martin Luther King Jr. Quotes

Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both.

The Lord doesn't give a person more than he knows they can bear.

God is always good and we are always loved... even when what He gives may appear ugly.

God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.

George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.

We ought to celebrate the positive glorious gifts of God, but the worth of God shines in a powerful way to the world when in the midst of suffering we still don't curse God but say "The Lord gave and the Lord takes away, blessed be the name of the Lord."

Sometimes I feel... that my cross is heavy beyond endurance... My heart seems worn out and bruised beyond repair, and in my deep loneliness I often wish to be gone, but God knows best, and I want to do every ounce of work He wants me to do.

Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.

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

How could a just God permit great misery? The Haitian peasants answered with a proverb: "Bondye konn bay, men li pa konn separe," in literal translation, "God gives but doesn't share." This meant... God gives us humans everything we need to flourish, but he's not the one who's supposed to divvy up the loot. That charge was laid upon us.

All God makes is good. Can it be that that which seems to oppose the will of God actually is used of Him to accomplish the will of God?

The Bible says that all things work together for the good of those who love the Lord and are called according to his purpose. I believe that. Because I've seen it all work.

When a book leaves your hands, it belongs to God. He may use it to save a few souls or to try a few others, but I think that for the writer to worry is to take over God's business.

The Bible is replete with commands to persevere, especially in the face of injustice.

I do not believe that God tortures any person simply for its own sake. I believe that God enables all things to work for the greater good.

The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

If I had to imagine omniscient, omnipresent, omnipotent power in the universe that chose to make my mother suffer, I don't know how I would make that make sense in the universe.

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

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

Discontent with this world gives such a painful longing to quit it that, if the heart finds comfort, it is solely from the thought that God wishes it to remain here in banishment.

I think the Lord gives us everything we can handle, nothing more.

However dark and profitless, however painful and weary, existence may have become, life is not done, and our Christian character is not won, so long as God has anything left for us to suffer, or anything left for us to do.

God will finish what He authors, but He is not obligated to finish what He has not authored.

I'm a believer in God, I'm a believer that he puts us where he wants us to be.

You have faith in God, and know he has a plan for me.