Joseph de Maistre Quotes

Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you.

That is all I want in life: for this pain to seem purposeful.

God never allows pain without a purpose.

If you are experiencing confusion, pain, and suffering, it may be that God is working things out for you in his own way. It is most often the sovereign work of our God unfolding a master plan known only to him.

If there is meaning in life at all, then there must be meaning in suffering.

Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ.

The low view of God entertained almost universally among Christians is the cause of a hundred lesser evils everywhere among us.

God hath yoked to guilt her pale tormentor,--misery.

Filter your pain through the brevity of this life and the unending beauty of the next.

Without God’s Word as a lens, the world warps

God's the seamstress that tailor-fitted my pain.

Always the most revealing thing about the church is her idea of God.

May new sufferings torment your soul.

Hell is not in torture; Hell is in an empty heart.

If our view is limited to mortal life, some things become unbearable because they seem so unfair and so permanent.

The animals are those things that God likes but doesn't love.

That which should distinguish the suffering of believers from unbelievers is the confidence that our suffering is under the control of an all-powerful and all-loving God. Our suffering has meaning and purpose in God's eternal plan, and He brings or allows to come into our lives only that which is for His glory and our good.

If you are afraid of death, be afraid. The point is to get with it, to let it take over - fear, ghosts, pains, transience, dissolution, and all. And then comes the hitherto unbelievable surprise; you don't die because you were never born. You had just forgotten who you are.

In this crazy world, there's an enormous distinction between good times and bad, between sorrow and joy. But in the eyes of God, they're never separated. Where there is pain, there is healing. Where there is mourning, there is dancing. Where there is poverty, there is the kingdom.

But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.

To have your niece die in your arms is the greatest gift from god.

In every pang that rends the heart the Man of Sorrows has a part.

He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace.

Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger.

I don't know how to answer the problem of deep pain without a deep hope in eternity.