“There is a marvelous story of a man who once stood before God, his heart breaking from the pain and injustice in the world. "Dear God." he cried out, "look at all the suffering, the anguish and distress in your world. Why don't you send help?" God responded,"I did send help. I sent you." When we tell our children that story, we must tell them that each one of them was sent to help repair the broken world-and that it is not the task of an instant or of a year, but of a lifetime.” MenWorldInspirationalYearsLooksHeartChildrenGodHelpingStoriesChristianPainPurposeSufferingBrokenTasksOur ChildrenLifetimeInjusticeDearChristian InspirationalInstantMeaning Of LifeCriedDistressMarvelousAnguishHeart BreakDear GodGod Has A PlanHeart BreakingBroken WorldInjustice In The World Author:David Wolpe
“Jesus doesn't give an explanation for the pain and sorrow of the world. He comes where the pain is most acute and takes it upon himself. Jesus doesn't explain why there is suffering, illness, and death in the world. He brings healing and hope. He doesn't allow the problem of evil to be the subject of a seminar. He allows evil to do its worst to him. He exhausts it, drains its power, and emerges with new life.” WorldGivingProblemChristianPainDeathSufferingEvilHopeJesusHealingPowerWorstSubjectsSorrowIllnessChristian InspirationalExplanationNew LifeDrainsSeminarsPain And SorrowProblem Of EvilIllness And Death Author:N. T. Wright
“When our trials come, when we feel pain and suffering, when our tears flow again, it is our joy and comfort to lift our faces heavenward and to go on, standing on the promises of God.” FeelsGodChristianPainFacesJoySufferingReligiousLordTearsGoes OnComfortPromiseStandingFlowOvercomingDifficultyAdversityChristian InspirationalTrialsMoving ForwardUpliftingLiftsMoving OnHard TimesHardshipTrust In GodPastorEncouragingCommitment To GodOvercoming AdversityConfidence In GodIntimacy With GodWords Of EncouragementCommunion With GodPain And SufferingConnecting With GodWalking With God Author:W. A. Criswell
“The true value of the Christian religion rests, not upon speculative views of the Creator, which must necessarily be different in each individual, according to the extent of the knowledge of the finite being, who employs his own feeble powers in contemplating the infinite: but it rests upon those doctrines of kindness and benevolence which that religion claims and enforces, not merely in favour of man himself but of every creature susceptible of pain or of happiness.” MenDifferentChristianPainValuesIndividualViewsKindnessCreaturesClaimsInfiniteCreatorDoctrineContemplatingFavourFiniteBenevolenceSusceptibleTrue Value Author:Charles Babbage
“We are all connected. What unites us is our common humanity. I don't want to oversimplify things - but the suffering of a mother who has lost her child is not dependent on her nationality, ethnicity or religion. White, black, rich, poor, Christian, Muslim or Jew - pain is pain - joy is joy.” WantChildrenChristianPainJoyMotherSufferingHumanityLostBlackWhitePoorCommonRichJewConnectedDependentNationalityEthnicityRich PoorCommon Humanity Author:Desmond Tutu
“Why shouldn’t we experience heartbreak? Through those doorways God is opening up ways of fellowship with His Son. Most of us collapse at the first grip of pain. We sit down at the door of God’s purpose and enter a slow death through self-pity. And all the so-called Christian sympathy of others helps us to our deathbed. But God will not. He comes with the grip of the pierced hand of His Son, as if to say, “Enter into fellowship with Me; arise and shine.” If God can accomplish His purposes in this world through a broken heart, then why not thank Him for breaking yours?” IfsWorldWayFirstsHeartSelfHelpingHandsChristianPainPurposeDoorsThis WorldSonBrokenShiningAccomplishAriseGods WillPityOpeningWhy NotCollapseFellowshipSelf PityDoorwaysOpening UpDeathbed Book:Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers Source: Utmost: Classic Readings and Prayers from Oswald Chambers
“Christian Science … is the direct denial both of science and of Christianity, for Science rests wholly on the recognition of truth and Christianity on the recognition of pain.” TruthChristianPainChristianityDirectRecognitionDenialChristian Science Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“The time has also come to recognize the painful truth that traditional Judeo-Christian moral values of pain and pleasure in human relationships have contributed substantially to child abuse and to the prevalence of physical violence in Western civilization.... The religious system upon which our culture is based holds that pain, suffering and deprivation are moral and necessary to save one's soul and make one a 'good person.' The crucifixion and scourging of Christ are examples.” HumansChildrenPersonsSoulChristianPainSufferingValuesCultureChristReligiousPleasureMoralViolenceExampleCivilizationAbuseWesternPainfulScaryTraditionalChild AbuseGood PersonHuman RelationsHuman RelationshipsDeprivationWestern CivilizationCrucifixionPain And PleasureMoral ValuesPhysical ViolencePain SufferingPainful Truth Author:James W. Prescott
“There's love and there's romantic love. The Greeks had different words for different kinds of love. And we just got "love." I don't know what you would call the other kinds - maybe brotherly love, Christian love, the love of Saint Francis, love of everyone and everything. Then there's romantic love, which, by and large, is a pain in the ass, a kind of trauma.” KnowsKindDifferentChristianPainSaintTraumaAssGreekDifferent KindsRomantic LoveKinds Of LoveChristian LoveBrotherlyBrotherly LoveDifferent Kinds Of LoveSaint Francis Author:John Maus
“Learn the lesson of your own pain--learn to seek God, not in any single event of past history, but in your own soul--in the constant verifications of experience, in the life of Christian love.” SoulChristianPainPastEventsLessonsExperienceConstantChristian LoveVerification Author:Mary Augusta Ward
“The life of a Christian is nothing but a perpetual struggle against self; there is no flowering of the soul to the beauty of its perfection except at the price of pain.” SoulSelfChristianPainStrugglePerfectionPerpetualFlowering Author:Pio of Pietrelcina
“For the first time I understood the dogma of eternal pain... For the first time my imagination grasped the height and depth of the Christian horror. Then I said: "It is a lie, and I hate your religion. If it is true, I hate your God." From that day I have had no fear, no doubt. For me, on that day, the flames of hell were quenched. From that day I have passionately hated every orthodox creed. That Sermon did some good.” IfsFirstsSaidChristianPainLyingHateEvilImaginationReligiousHellDoubtHorrorEternalUnderstoodFirst TimeI HateDepthHatedFlamesHeightNo DoubtOrthodoxCreedsDogmaHate YouNo FearSermonsMy ImaginationI Hate You Author:Robert Green Ingersoll
“Should pain and suffering, sorrow, and grief, rise up like clouds and overshadow for a time the Sun of Righteousness and hide Him from your view, do not be dismayed, for in the end this cloud of woe will descend in showers of blessing on your head, and the Sun of Righteousness rise upon you to set no more forever.” ShouldEndsChristianPainSufferingViewsGriefSunForeverSorrowBlessingCloudsRighteousnessShowersAfflictionWoePain And SufferingDismayed Author:Sadhu Sundar Singh
“The person who truly wishes to be healed is he who does not refuse treatment. This treatment consists of the pain and distress brought on by various misfortunes. He who refuses them does not realize what they accomplish in this world or what he will gain from them when he departs this life.” WorldPersonsDoeChristianPainWishRealizingThis WorldGainsVariousRefuseAccomplishChristian LifeThis LifeTreatmentOrthodoxMisfortunesDistressHealed Author:Maximus the Confessor
“If you are remembering evil against someone, then pray for him; and as you remove through prayer the pain of the remembrance of the evil he has done, you will stop the advance of the passion. And when you have attained brotherly love and love for mankind, you will completely cast this passion out of your soul. Then when someone else does evil to you, be affectionate and humble toward him, and treat him kindly, and you will deliver him from this passion.” IfsInspirationalDoeSoulDoneChristianPainRememberPassionEvilReligiousPrayerMankindPrayingAnd LoveTreatsCastsHumbleYour SoulRemoveOrthodoxRemembranceAffectionateBrotherlyBrotherly Love Author:Maximus the Confessor
“Every Christian who struggles with depression struggles to keep their hope clear. There is nothing wrong with the object of their hope - Jesus Christ is not defective in any way whatsoever. But the view from the struggling Christian's heart of their objective hope could be obscured by disease and pain, the pressures of life, and by Satanic fiery darts shot against them... All discouragement and depression is related to the obscuring of our hope, and we need to get those clouds out of the way and fight like crazy to see clearly how precious Christ is.” WayNeedsHeartChristianPainFightingJesusChristViewsStruggleClearCrazyObjectsDiseaseDepressionShotsJesus ChristPressureCloudsObjectivesRelatedDiscouragementFierySatanicDefectiveDarts Author:John Piper
“Even in the greatest afflictions, we ought to testify to God, that, in receiving them from his hand, we feel pleasure in the midst of the pain, from being afflicted by Him who loves us, and whom we love.” FeelsHandsChristianPainPleasureOughtMidstReceivingAffliction Book:The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.: Miscellaneous Source: The Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A.M.: Miscellaneous