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“If God causes you to suffer much it is a sign that He has great designs for you and that He certainly intends to make you a saint. And if you wish to become a great saint, entreat Him yourself to give you much opportunity for suffering; for there is no wood better to kindle the fire of holy love than the wood of the cross, which Christ used for His own great sacrifice of boundless charity.”

“I'm suffering very much, but am I suffering very well? That's the point!”

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Book:St. Thérèse of Lisieux: Her Last Conversations

Source: St. Thérèse of Lisieux: Her Last Conversations

“Faith only grows through suffering.”

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Author:Mark Driscoll

“When we suffer, there will sometimes be mystery... Will there also be faith?”

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Book:How Long, O Lord?: Reflections on Suffering and Evil

Source: How Long, O Lord?: Reflections on Suffering and Evil

“When our faith is tested by suffering "as gold is tried in a furnace" and we depend with confidence on God and rely entirely on his help, we will be granted the most excellent gift of patience and through faith we may victoriously persevere to the end.”

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Author:John Calvin

“Faith and patience are exceptional virtues in those that suffer. Patience is the fruit and evidence of faith.”

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Author:John Calvin

“When pain and suffering strike, our faith is well founded if it is standing on the promises of God. For all of God's promises have strong confirmation in Christ.”

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Author:John Calvin

“Just because we don't see a reason for evil and suffering doesn't mean there's not a reason for it.”

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Author:Timothy Keller

“The point of the Book of Job is not suffering: where is God When It hurts? The prologue (chapters 1-2) dealt with that issue. The point of the Book of Job is faith: Where is Job when it hurts?”

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Author:Philip Yancey

“We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of God. Amazing grace is no longer amazing to us.”

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Author:R. C. Sproul

“Refusing to be disillusioned is the cause of much of the suffering of human life. And this is how that suffering happens-if we love someone, but do not love God, we demand total perfection and righteousness from that person, and when we do not get it, we become cruel and vindictive; yet we are demanding of a human being which he or she cannot possibly give.”

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Book:My Utmost for His Highest

Source: My Utmost for His Highest

“If there were never any clouds (sorrows and sufferings) in our lives, we would have no faith. God does not come near us without clouds.”

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Author:Oswald Chambers

“God always seems bigger to those who need him most. And suffering is the tool he uses to help us need him more.”

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Book:When God Weeps: Why Our Sufferings Matter to the Almighty

Source: When God Weeps: Why Our Sufferings Matter to the Almighty

“The problem of suffering is not about something but about someone.”

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Author:Joni Eareckson Tada

“Men will never be great in theology until they are great in suffering.”

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Author:Charles Spurgeon

“If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.”

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Author:Saint Augustine

“It is the spectators, the people who are outside, looking at the tragedy, from whose ranks the skeptics come; it is not those who are actually in the arena and who know suffering from the inside. Indeed, the fact is that it is the world's greatest sufferers who have produced the most shining examples of unconquerable faith.”

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Author:James Stewart

“The Christian is joyful, not because he is blind to injustice and suffering, but because he is convinced that these, in the light of the divine sovereignty, are never ultimate. The Christian can be sad, and often is perplexed, but he is never really worried, because he knows that the purpose of God is to bring all things in heaven and on earth together under one head, even Christ.”

“No pain that we suffer, no trial that we experience is wasted. It ministers to our education, to the development of such qualities as patience, faith, fortitude and humility. All that we suffer and all that we endure, especially when we endure it patiently, builds up our characters, purifies our hearts, expands our souls, and makes us more tender and charitable, more worthy to be called the children of God . . . and it is through sorrow and suffering, toil and tribulation, that we gain the education that we come here to acquire and which will make us more like our Father and Mother in heaven.”

“A true faith in Jesus Christ will not suffer us to be idle. No, it is an active, lively, restless principle; it fills the heart, so that it cannot be easy till it is doing something for Jesus Christ.”

Source: The Works of the Reverend George Whitefield, M.A...: Containing All His Sermons and Tracts which Have Been Already Published: with a Select Collection of Letters... Also, Some Other Pieces on Important Subjects, Never Before Printed; Prepared by Himself for the Press; to which is Prefixed, an Account of His Life, Compiled from His Orignial Papers and Letters

“Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith. Patient endurance attends to all things.”

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Author:Teresa of Avila

“The saints must be honored as friends of Christ and children and heirs of God. Let us carefully observe the manner of life of all the apostles, martyrs, ascetics, and just men who announced the coming of the Lord. And let us emulate their faith, charity, hope, zeal, life, patience under suffering, and perseverance unto death so that we may also share their crowns of glory.”

“If you love, you will suffer. The only way to protect yourself against suffering is to protect yourself against love - and that is the greatest suffering of all, loneliness.”

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Book:Three Philosophies of Life: Ecclesiastes, Job, and Song of Songs

Source: Three Philosophies of Life: Ecclesiastes, Job, and Song of Songs

“Ultimately, in the battle against lies and violence, truth and love have no other weapon than the witness of suffering.”

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Book:Jesus of Nazareth: From the Entrance Into Jerusalem to the Resurrection. Holy week. Part two

Source: Jesus of Nazareth: From the Entrance Into Jerusalem to the Resurrection. Holy week. Part two

“We are not masochists - the cross is not an end in itself; it is for glory. We Christians are not looking for suffering, but for joy. God, living in joy, wanted to communicate it to all people. This is why he sent it down into our misery, nailing it to the cross. At that point, the cross became the way toward joy. Christianity is not at all morality and prohibitions - first and foremost it is wonder before things.”

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Author:Fabrice Hadjadj

“When you feel the assaults of passion and anger, then is the time to be silent as Jesus was silent in the midst of His ignominies and sufferings.”

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Author:Paul of the Cross

“Believest thou? then thou wilt speak boldly. Speakest thou boldy? then thou must suffer. Sufferest thou? then thou shalt be comforted. For faith, the confession thereof, and the cross do follow one another.”

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Author:Martin Luther

“As Elisabeth Elliot points out, not even dying a martyr’s death is classified as extraordinary obedience when you are following a Savior who died on a cross. Suddenly a martyr’s death seems like normal obedience.”