Anne Graham Lotz Quotes

[God] is able to take your life, with all of the heartache, all of the pain, all of the regret, all of the missed opportunities, and use you for His glory.

Why do bad things happen? For pedagogical reasons, so that we can experience the power of Allah, catch a glimpse of Hell and fear it, so that we can practice seeking refuge in Him and, when relief comes give thanks to His mercy. Darkness was created so that, like plants, we could yearn and turn to the light.

If you allow it, [suffering] can be the means by which God brings you His greatest blessings.

Mary’s life shows that God accomplishes great deeds through those who are the most humble.

God wants the world to see what God can do with his purchased possessions. So he prunes you.

But perhaps God's purpose in the world (I am only thinking aloud here) is to draw his creatures to him. And you have to admit that tragedies like this one at Virginia Tech help to do that!

God gave me Parkinson's syndrome to show me I'm not 'The Greatest' - he is.

God's forgiving grace is incomplete until he gives me - and I accept - a new kingdom-building dream and opportunity.

God will use your mess for good. We see a perfect mess; God sees a perfect chance to train, test , and teach.

The most remarkable thing about suffering is that God can use it for our good.

I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any of this? I feel now He was preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.

A season of suffering is a small assignment when compared to the reward. Rather than begrudge your problem, explore it. Ponder it. And most of all, use it. Use it to the glory of God.

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

Extraordinary afflictions are not always the punishment of extraordinary sins, but sometimes the trial of extraordinary graces.

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

Indeed, there is nothing like suffering to remind us how much we need God. What good news that His purpose and plan for our lives moves in a different direction from ours!

If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'

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.

What I'm interested in is to get people saved and to see the power of God spread.

Sometimes the Lord brings us low before he can lift us higher.

None shall be saved by Christ but those only who work out their own salvation while God is working in them by His truth and His Holy Spirit. We cannot do without God; and God will not do without us.

God does not waste an ounce of our pain or a drop of our tears; suffering doesn't come our way for no reason, and He seems especially efficient at using what we endure to mold our character. If we are malleable, He takes our bumps and bruises and shapes them into something beautiful.

Our assignment has never been about what we can do for God, but what can God do through us.

Prayer is a salve for every sore, a remedy for every malady; and when we are afflicted with thorns in the flesh, we should give ourselves to prayer. If an answer be not given to the first prayer, nor to the second, we are to continue praying. Troubles are sent to teach us to pray; and are continued, to teach us to continue instant in prayer.