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No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.
- C. S. Lewis
Con: Pain & Suffering - CLICK - Here
Brief Overview: One of the most potent arguments challenging the existence of God, or at least a "good" God, is the reality of pain and suffering in the world, especially among the young and innocent. These are profound questions without easy answers. To explore the rationale behind how a benevolent God might permit suffering while providing guidance on how to cope with it, - Click - on buttons below (Complete Overview or "Display by Category/All" or Author Name)
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God never wastes a hurt.
- Rick Warren (PhD) -
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Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you.
- Mother Teresa (Nobel Prize) -
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Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (Nobel Prize) -
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God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives. Felt weakness deepens dependence on Christ for strength each day.
- J. I. Packer -
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We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.
- Augustine of Hippo -
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Pain removes the veil; it plants the flag of truth within the fortress of a rebel soul.
- C. S. Lewis -
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This is one of the sad conditions of life, that experience is not transmissible. No man will learn from the suffering of another; he must suffer himself
- James H. Aughey -
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Some of God's greatest gifts are unanswered prayers.
- Garth Brooks -
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The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
- Rumi -
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In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
- Mother Teresa (Nobel Prize) -
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Suffering in itself does not make us holy. It is only when we unite it, out of love, to the suffering of Christ that it has meaning. Suffering without love is wasted pain.
- Mother Angelica -
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Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.
- Philip Yancey -
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Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.
- Augustine of Hippo -
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You may never know that Jesus is all you need, until Jesus is all you have.
- Corrie ten Boom -
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I am certain that I never did grow in grace one-half so much anywhere as I have upon the bed of pain.
- Charles Spurgeon -
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True, I am in love with suffering, but I do not know if I deserve the honor.
- St. Ignatius of Loyola -
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Here is a mystery: one mans experience drives him to curse God, while another mans identical experience drives him to bless God. Your response to what happens is more important than what happens.
- Chip Brogden -
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Suffering will come, trouble will come - that's part of life; a sign that you are alive. If you have no suffering and no trouble, the devil is taking it easy. You are in his hand.
- Mother Teresa (Nobel Prize) -
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Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Albert Einstein (Nobel, PhD) -
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Suffering is nothing by itself. But suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift, the most beautiful gift, a token of love.
- Mother Teresa (Nobel Prize) -
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Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.
- C. S. Lewis -
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Whatever troubles are weighing you down are not chains. They are featherweight when compared to the glory yet to come .
- Joni Eareckson Tada -
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I am not a theologian or a scholar, but I am very aware of the fact that pain is necessary to all of us. In my own life, I think I can honestly say that out of the deepest pain has come the strongest conviction of the presence of God and the love of God.
- Elisabeth Elliot -
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Some suffering is given in order to chastise and correct a person . . . some suffering is given not to correct past wrongs but to prevent future ones . . . and some suffering has no purpose other than to lead a person to love God more ardently . . ..
- Timothy Keller (PhD) -
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While 21st Century technology and medicine have dulled our physical and mental pain, the only long term therapy for our anguish and loneliness will be when Christians come home.
- Chris D. Cisions -
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God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars.
- Elbert Hubbard -
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God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering.
- Augustine of Hippo -
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Pain is never permanent.
- St. Teresa of Avila -
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But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
- C. S. Lewis -
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A Christian is someone who shares the sufferings of God in the world.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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