Suffering Love Quotes

And why are you so firmly, so triumphantly, convinced that only the normal and the positive--in other words, only what is conducive to welfare--is for the advantage of man? Is not reason in error as regards advantage? Does not man, perhaps, love something besides well-being? Perhaps he is just as fond of suffering? Perhaps suffering is just as great a benefit to him as well-being? Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering, and that is a fact.

O Thou Lamb of God that taketh away the sin of the world, what Thou bearest in Thy blessed hands and feet I cannot bear; take it all away. Hide me in the depths of Thy suffering love, mold me to the image of Thy divine passion.

Lord, how you afflict your lovers! But everything is small in comparison to what you give them afterwards.

Love is a fire/It burns everyone/It disfigures everyone/It is the world's excuse for being ugly.

The way of the Cross is not easy, yet it is the tuneful, the rhythmic, the beautiful, the lovely way.

We're always looking at this love through the eyes of the person who is suffering because of this love.

He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace.

When God sets His heart on you, you will be tried often. But the longer and harder your affliction, the more deeply God has set His heart on you, to show you His love and care.

Love is a Dog from Hell.

Suffering is the very best gift He has to give us. He gives it only to His chosen friends.

Suffering invites us to place our hurts in larger hands. In Christ we see God suffering – for us. And calling us to share in God’s suffering love for a hurting world. The small and even overpowering pains of our lives are intimately connected with the greater pains of Christ. Our daily sorrows are anchored in a greater sorrow and therefore a larger hope.

The call of the gospel is for the church to implement the victory of God in the world through suffering love.