Suffering Purpose Quotes

Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

God never wastes pain. He always uses it to accomplish his purpose. And his purpose is for his glory and our good. Therefore we can trust him when our hearts are aching or our bodies are racked with pain

God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.

Suffering is overrated. It doesn't teach you anything.

God measures out affliction to our need.

One cannot get through life without pain...What we can do is choose how to use the pain life presents to us.

But the real, tremendous truth is this: suffering serves no purpose whatever.

Make sickness itself a prayer.

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

You will know how to stop suffering as soon as suffering ceases to be valuable. If you are in pain, you are being led.

God did not rescue me out of the pain, He rescued me through the pain!

It would be a very sharp & trying experience to me to think that I have an affliction which God never sent me, that the bitter cup was never filled by his hand, that my trials were never measured out by him, nor sent to me by his arrangement of their weight and quantity.

God has to be temporarily cruel in order to be permanently kind.

God knows life sucks. It's right there in the Bible. The book of Job is all about Job asking God to take away pain and misery. And God says, "I can't take away pain and misery because then no one would talk to me."

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

To a pagan, there is no purpose to suffering. As a result, he lives a life of loneliness and frustration.

The extreme greatness of Christianity lies in the fact that it does not seek a supernatural remedy for suffering but a supernatural use for it.

God does not delight in our sufferings. He brings only that which is necessary, but He does not shrink from that which will help us grow.

Suffering has a noble purpose: the evolution of consciousness and the burning up of the ego.

Hell is not punishment, it's training.

How can the good God Who loves us so much, be happy when we suffer? Never does our suffering make Him happy; but it is necessary for us, and so He sends it to us while, as it were, turning away His Face. . . I assure you that it costs Him dearly to fill us with bitterness.

Though all afflictions are evils in themselves, yet they are good for us, because they discover to us our disease and tend to our cure.

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

Does the presence of pain mean the absence of God? I try to help people see that God uses pain, that pain is one of the ways God shapes us into the kind of beings He wants us to be for eternity.