Billy Graham Quotes

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

If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world to be either redeemed or no further redeemable.

God can never make us wine if we object to the fingers He uses to crush us with.

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.

When life is good and we have no problems, we can almost let ourselves believe we have no need for God. But in my experience, sometimes the richest blessings come through pain and hard things.

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

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!

I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it.

The dark moments of our life will last only so long as is necessary for God to accomplish His purpose in us.

True, God hates Alzheimer's, spinal cord injury, mental illness, autism, and the rest (these conditions are all symptoms of the Fall). Yet he permits these things to accomplish something far more precious in our lives: patience, endurance, compassion for others who hurt, and refined faith and trust in God, to name a few.

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

It is not God's way that great blessings should descend without the sacrifice first of great sufferings. If the truth is to be spread to any wide extent among the people, how can we dream, how can we hope, that trial and trouble shall not accompany its going forth.

Sickness has frequently been of more use to the saints of God than health has.

Do you think that you shall enter the Garden of Bliss without such trials as came to those who passed before you?

Every test, every trial, every heartache that's been significant, I can turn it over and see how God has turned it into good no matter what.

This, I thought, is what is meant by 'thy will be done' in the Lord's Prayer, which I had prayed time and again without thinking about it. It means that your will and God's will may not be the same. It means there's a good possibility that you won't get what you pray for. It means that in spite of your prayers you are going to suffer.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.

We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.

God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.