N. T. Wright Quotes

God wrote a book on suffering, and its name is Jesus.

And it is not always good to be healed in body. Nor is it always evil to die in battle, even in bitter pain. Were I permitted, in this dark hour I would choose the latter.

If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear.

If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.

There should be weeping at a man's birth, not at his death.

Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.

Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.

The good news is that even though we walk through this valley of death, we don't have to fear, at least not for ourselves! Unfortunately, there is no way to skip over the valley altogether, we must face death and the evidence of evil all around us. But there will come a day... And what a day that will be!

It is very difficult to give a 15 second sound bite on why there is pain and suffering in this world and not have it come off as being flippant or surface level or superficial.

Perhaps the day may come when we shall remember these sufferings with joy.

Suffering, failure, loneliness, sorrow, discouragement, and death will be part of your journey, but the Kingdom of God will conquer all these horrors. No evil can resist grace forever.

Suffering isn't ennobling, recovery is.

The world is not yet redeemed.

The Bible doesn't sugarcoat pain and suffering; it gives you something to move past it.

' 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.

It is not easy to talk about peace to people who are mourning every day.

I have been drawn to stories that are attempting to turn suffering into beauty.

In southern and central Africa, tragedy roared at us, and we roared back. We shared dramas publicly, bled them on the corridors of hospitals, laid our corpses on the beds of neighbors, held our sorrows up in full light. We were volume ten about our madness and disorder, even if we were also resilient and enduring and tough.

As we wander, grieving, in yet another dark moment, amid our pain we must struggle to remember the redemptive power of love and hope.

I've been through a lot and if God can use that story to help people through a lot of pain and heartache and share hope with people, well we'll see how it progresses.

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.

Turn away. From the darkness, the madness, the pain. Open your eyes and look at the light.

The pain is necessary. Sometimes pain is the teacher we require, a hidden gift of healing and hope.

Think of everything you've ever experienced that was painful; that's the meaning of Good Friday. Think of all the ways that love ultimately healed your heart; that's the meaning of Easter.