Quote Post One...Encouraging Suffering Quotes Post

 I LOVE quotes! =) Especially quotes that speak real truth...truths that come from God and that I can remember as I walk in this life. So here is my post of quotes ( which I shall randomly post once in a while). I was looking for encouraging quotes and there seemed to be a lot on suffering quotes on the first page I was on. So, I did not set out to make this a post of encouraging suffering quotes, but that is what it became =]  (encouraging suffering quotes...can there be anything encouraging about suffering? I am not old and wise, but I have gained some wisdom in my walk with God in this life and I can say yes. )

"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 person...... the one who accepts the call of God in Christ Jesus."

Oswald Chambers
My Utmost for His Highest

This is called surrendering. Accepting from our Father in Heaven what he allows to pass in our lives. This is humility towards God. This is walking with God through the hurting and learning from him in it. And he does give peace after we have walked through it with him.


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“When one door closes, another opens, but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one that has opened for us.”

-Alexander Graham Bell

God never leaves us hopeless without a way out...or a without a future. With God there are no dead ends.

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"When you and I hurt deeply, what we really need is not an explanation from God but a revelation of God. We need to see how great God is; we need to recover our lost perspective on life. Things get out of proportion when we are suffering, and it takes a vision of something bigger than ourselves to get life's dimensions adjusted again."

Warren W. Wiersbe

 God doesn't usually answer our question " why". We all ask...Jesus asked. But he did not hold it against God that he did not answer, but rather gave himself up to God.When I have asked why, I have never gotten an answer or explanation. But when I have surrendered that "why" and pain to God and asked him to comfort and heal me, He always has.

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Last one! =)

                 "Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us."

           Charles Kingsley

   Don’t let evil conquer you, but conquer evil by doing good. ( Romans 12:21 NLT)

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