I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.
What breaks your heart is part of a divine design to bring change!
In God's economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is.
There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.
... people loved to suffer, as long as the suffering made sense. Everybody suffered. The key was to choose the form of your suffering.
As a rule I don't like suffering to no purpose. Suffering should be creative, should give birth to something good and lovely.
We cannot bear a pointless torment, but we can endure great pain if we believe that it's purposeful.
God does not discipline us to subdue us, but to condition us for a life of usefulness and blessedness.
God does not relish our sufferings, but He delights in our development.
That which should distinguish the suffering of believers from unbelievers is the confidence that our suffering is under the control of an all-powerful and all-loving God. Our suffering has meaning and purpose in God's eternal plan, and He brings or allows to come into our lives only that which is for His glory and our good.
Above all else, He loves you and chose to measure that love out not in words, but in blood. He loves you enough to give you the greatest gift conceivable. Would such a love allow you to suffer without purpose?
This is the love that does all things; that brings to pass even the evils we suffer; so shaping them that they are but instruments of preparing the good which, as yet, has not arrived.
