Quotes on Suffering

"In seeking God's power, I discovered his person. He is not just omnipotent; he is also the God of all comfort. And taking us through suffering, not out of it, is one of the primary means that the Spirit uses today in bringing us to God."
------ Daniel Wallace, in *Christianity Today*, September 12 1994

"Don't look forward to the day you stop suffering, because when it comes you'll know you're dead."
------ Tennessee Williams, in the London *Observer*, 1958.

"Despair is suffering without meaning."
------ Viktor Frankl

"Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible of poverty."
------ Mother Theresa

"I come from a situation that for good and bad had a heightened expectation for healing. Because of our anticipation, we witnessed many healings; but it also took us a long time to come to grips with the redemptive aspects of suffering. In the end, we realized that healing had a discernment aspect to it: before we began to pray we would seek God for HOW to pray in line with his purposes."
------ Todd Hunter, in the Off the Map

"They say of some temporal suffering, 'No future bliss can make up for it,' not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work backwards and turn even that agony into a glory."
------ C.S. Lewis

"Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it."
------ Helen Keller, *Optimism*

"I do not ask You to take away my suffering;
I do not even want to know why I suffer;
but only this, my God --
do I suffer for Your sake?"
------ Levi Yitzhok of Berditchev

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