Jim Bakker Quotes

We might experience bad things in our lives. But if we worship a God who suffered more than us, this is our highest example. And there are lots of challenges in our lives. This does not mean we give up.

I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

Some people who suffer run away from God, and I know the tendency, but instead I just run to Him.

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.

Those who are believers in God find strength from their faith in the face of suffering. They are compelled to give sacrificially to help those in need. And they have the hope that comes from knowing that, with God by their side, the tragedy they are facing is never the final word.

A lot of tragedy can befall us, but there's always something else; there's always hope.

We all face storms in life. Some are more difficult than others, but we all go through trials and tribulation. That's why we have the gift of faith.

For me, and I suspect for lots of other people too, bad things actually sometimes make you think more about faith and the fact that you're not facing these things on your own.

God does give us more than we can bear sometimes.

I have great faith in God. Without faith, I don't know how I would have been able to get through what I've been through.

When we struggle, as so many do, in grinding poverty, or when our enemies prevail against us, or when sickness is not healed, the enemy of our souls can send his evil message that there is no God or that if He exists He does not care about us.

Tragedy should be utilized as a source of strength.

I desire an special interest in your prayers that my faith fail not in the day of adversity.

Hard times make you bitter or make you more compassionate.

It requires more courage to suffer than to die.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.

Job was the greatest of all the children of the east, and his afflictions were well-nigh more than he could bear; but even if we imagined them wearing him to death, that would not make his story tragic.

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.

Adversities such as being homeless and going to prison has made many people stronger.

I always have this image of a woman running across a desert carrying children, trying to find water and food, not knowing when they'll get that. And her feet are slashed up from the dry, hard earth... Even when I'm uncomfortable, sometimes in pain, or just cold... I think, 'Thank God for what I've got.'

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

There's beauty in pain, and everyone experiences it - and it's a lesson.

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it.