Pain Purpose Quotes

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.

I always say that pain is information, that it is not punishment.

To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The Archbishop of Canterbury doesn't believe that.

Pain (any pain-emotional, physical, mental) has a message. Once we get the pains message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.

God allows us to feel pain for a reason: to protect us.

I never yet heard of a useless thing that was not ground out of existence by evolution sooner or later. Did you? And pain gets needless.

Normal birth to me should not be numb from the waist down and waiting for the doctor to tell you to push. There's a reason we feel it. There's a reason we need to feel it.

It is here that we encounter the central theme of existentialism: to live is to suffer, to survive is to find meaning in the suffering.

Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent.

Few can believe that suffering, especially by others, is in vain. Anything that is disagreeable must surely have beneficial economic effects.

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

In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species.

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

God never allows pain without a purpose.

Nothing is necessary except God, and nothing is less necessary than pain.

Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of.

We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.

Pain (any pain--emotional, physical, mental) has a message. The information it has about our life can be remarkably specific, but it usually falls into one of two categories: We would be more alive if we did more of this and Life would be more lovely if we did less of that. Once we get the pain's message, and follow its advice, the pain goes away.

I want all my pain to count for something.