Anne Graham Lotz Quotes

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.

Pour not on the comforts you want, but upon the mercies you have. Look rather at God's ending in afflicting, than to the measure and degree of your affliction.

I read God's word when I am not suffering. And then I don't have to all of a sudden establish this habit when I am hurting.

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.

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!

We can stand affliction better than we can prosperity, for in prosperity we forget God.

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.

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.

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 has imposed suffering upon anyone to punish them or to teach them a lesson.

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

Suffering will get you great footage. I don't know about closer to God. Although there have been times when I've suffered to the point where I think I might be about to meet him.

I never question God. Sometimes I say, 'Why me? Why do I have such a hard life? Why do I have this disease? Why do I have siblings who died?' But then I think and say, 'Why not me?'

Sometimes it looks like God's abandoned you, but not for any reason. To make your faith grow and to see that, no matter what happens, you come out OK... It's all for your good. It's all for love, and it's all for making you a strong person.

I do not believe in the 'prosperity Gospel' as I've been accused of believing it. I do believe that all good things come from God, and I also believe that God teaches us so much through our suffering.

Labour to grow better under all your afflictions, lest your afflictions grow worse, lest God mingle them with more darkness, bitterness and terror.

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

There are many trials in life which do not seem to come from unwisdom or folly; they are silver arrows shot from the bow of God, and fixed inextricably in the quivering heart - they are meant to be borne - they were not meant, like snow or water, to melt as soon as they strike; but the moment an ill can be patiently borne it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.

Dear Child of God, I am sorry to say that suffering is not optional.

... when we are hurt it is important to remember that God Himself has allowed it for a purpose.

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

When afflictions arrest us, we shall murmur and grumble and struggle until we see that it is God that strikes.

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.

Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies.