Adoniram Judson Quotes

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

God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into the furnace of affliction.

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.

Sometimes my worst day - one filled with pain and suffering - in the eyes of God, is my best day if I've born it cheerfully and I've born it with love.

There are many trials in life which do not seem to come from unwisdom or folly; they are silver arrows shot from the bow of God, and fixed inextricably in the quivering heart - they are meant to be borne - they were not meant, like snow or water, to melt as soon as they strike; but the moment an ill can be patiently borne it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

Be praised, my Lord, through those who forgive for love of you; through those who endure sickness and trial.

Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.

If thou art willing to suffer no adversity, how wilt thou be the friend of Christ?

Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them—all the way through!

Suffering is how we test our love especially our love for God.

You can't get around pain and opposition, but you can try to be joyful in the trial, and thank yourself for the trial, and thank God for the strength to get through it.

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

There will be days when you feel defeated, exhausted, and plain old beat-up by life's whiplash. People you love will disappoint you - and you will disappoint them. You'll probably struggle with some kind of mortal appetite. Some days it will feel as though the veil between Heaven and Earth is made of reinforced concrete.

Suffering is part of the divine idea.

God, he deals you blows that at sometimes you think you can't handle and in the last year there have been things that we thought we couldn't handle but we've dealt with it up until this point.

Anything that I undergo, I look at as redemptive suffering.

We don't believe in rheumatism and true love until after the first attack.

God does give us more than we can bear sometimes.

If you suffer, thank God! It is a sure sign that you are alive.

Not without hope we suffer and we mourn.

God will give you no more than you can handle.

We're all going to experience death and failure and setbacks and disappointments and cancer and, you know, it's a really difficult world. And for me, God has always - in my relationship with Christ - He's given me hope and peace.

When an apprentice gets hurt, or complains of being tired, the workmen and peasants have this fine expression: "It is the trade entering his body." Each time that we have some pain to go through, we can say to ourselves quite truly that it is the universe, the order and beauty of the world, and the obedience of God that are entering our body.

I have the experience of age and suffering.

I have suffered too much in this world not to hope for another.