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Dick Ryan
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Suffering is a dreadful teacher but often the beginning of the best in us. Suffering and creativity arc often interdependent. Pain produces a terrible tension released in our creative response. Suffer...
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Mignon McLaughlin
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When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
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Alistair Begg
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We should neither court suffering nor complain about it. Instead, we should see it as one of the means God chooses to employ in order to make us increasingly useful to our Master.
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John H. Elliot
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1 Peter 4:12-16, 1 Peter 3:16-17, 1 Peter 2:19-20, 1 Peter 1:6-7
The suffering addressed in 1 Peter is not random misfortune but the social cost of a new identity that challenges prevailing cultural norms.
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Peter Davids
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- Suffering
- Rewards
The point [of suffering] is that while Christians may suffer in this age and so have no future here, there is waiting for the faithful a reward as sure and as real as that of Abraham, a reward far bet...
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Jürgen Moltmann
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Romans 5:3-4, James 1:2-3, 1 Peter 1:6-7, Hebrews 11:1, 1 Peter 4:12-13
Faith does not grow in spite of suffering, but through suffering, when hope learns to contradict reality.
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W. H. Auden
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- Suffering
About suffering they were never wrong, The Old Masters: how well they understood Its human position; how it takes place While someone else is eating or opening a window or just walking dully along.
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Billy Graham
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Evil and suffering are real . . . They aren’t an illusion, nor are they simply an absence of good. We are fallen creatures living in a fallen world that has been twisted and corrupted by sin, and we a...
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Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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1 Peter 3:13:22, Psalm 44:24
There is in the psalms no quick and easy resignation to suffering. There is always struggle, anxiety, and doubt. God’s righteousness, which allows the pious to be met by misfortune but the godless to...
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Oswald Chambers
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- Attitude
- Suffering
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Psalm 119:67, Isaiah 48:10, 2 Corinthians 4:17, Philippians 3:10, Romans 5:3-5
We all know people who have been made much meaner and more irritable and more intolerable to live with by suffering: it is not right to say that all suffering perfects. It only perfects one type of pe...
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James H. Aughey
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- Experience
- Suffering
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.
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C. S. Lewis
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- Experience
- Suffering
We were promised sufferings. They were part of the program. We were even told, 'Blessed are they that mourn,' and I accept it. I've got nothing that I hadn't bargained for. Of course i...
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Max Scheler
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- Suffering
- Religion
An essential part of the teachings and directives of the great religious and philosophical thinkers the world over has been on the meaning of pain and suffering.
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Oswald Chambers
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- Suffering
- Passion of Christ
In the history of the Christian church, the tendency has been to evade being identified with the sufferings of Jesus Christ; [people] have sought to procure the carrying out of God’s order by a shortc...
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Nicolas Wolterstorff
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- Suffering
- God's Love
God so suffered for the world that he gave up his only Son to suffering.
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Peter Berger
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- Suffering
[Every culture has provided an] explanation of human events that bestows meaning upon the experiences of suffering and evil.
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Helen Keller
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Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved.
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Ben Patterson
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God always comes alongside us in our waiting and suffering. But it is rarely to explain what is happening to us. Rather, he comes to speak of his love for us, to assure us that he is near and to tell ...
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John Stott
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1 Peter 4:14, 2 Corinthians 4:16-17, Romans 8:17-18, Luke 23:33-46, Acts 7:54-60
Nevertheless, what was shameful, even odious, to the critics of Christ, was in the eyes of his followers most glorious. They had learnt that the servant was not greater than the master, and that for t...
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David Brooks
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The people who have been made larger by suffering are brave enough to let parts of their old self die. Down in the valley, their motivations changed. They’ve gone from self-centered to other-centered.
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Jürgen Moltmann
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Hebrews 4:15, Hebrews 5:7-9, Isaiah 53:1-12, 1 Peter 4:1, 1 Peter 3:18, Matthew 27:57-75, Matthew 28:, Mark 14:43-65, Mark 15:, Luke 23:26-56, John 19:1-37, 1 Peter 2:24, Romans 8:3
A God who cannot suffer is poorer than any human. For a God who is incapable of suffering is a being who cannot be involved. Suffering and injustice do not affect him. And because he is so completely ...
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Elisabeth Elliot
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2 Corinthians 11:23-28, Ruth 1:16, 1 John 4:18, 1 Corinthians 13:4-7, John 15:12-13
To love means to open ourselves to suffering. Shall we shut our doors to love, then, and be “safe”?
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Bob Marley
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Truth is, everybody is going to hurt you; you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for.
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Theodore Parker Ferris
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[Speaking of crucifixion] It seems almost inevitable to me that Jesus should go through this kind of darkness. . . . If you think of Jesus as God disguised as a man, then this will have no meaning for...
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George MacDonald
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No words can express how much the world owes to sorrow. Most of the Psalms were born in the wilderness. Most of the Epistles were written in a prison. The greatest thoughts of the greatest thinkers ha...
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Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
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The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a ...
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Sadhu Sundar Singh
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During an earthquake it sometimes happens that fresh springs break out in dry places which water and quicken the land so that plants can grow. In the same way the shattering experiences of suffering c...
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Lesslie Newbigin
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Through the repeated hammer blows of defeat, destruction, and deportation, interpreted by the faithful prophets, Israel has to learn that election is not for comfort and security but for suffering and...
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C. S. Lewis
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"Son," he said, "ye cannot in your present state understand eternity…That is what mortals misunderstand. They say of some temporal suffering, 'No future bliss can make up for it,...
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John Stott
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- Holiness
- Suffering
Do you want to be holy? Then you will suffer.