"If you allow it, [suffering] can be the means by which God brings you His greatest blessings."

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"If you allow it, [suffering] can be the means by which God brings you His greatest blessings."

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"It was the sound of a thousand hungry children crying, ten thousand widows tearing their hair over their husband's graves, a chorus of angels singing the last dirge on the day of God's death."

Christopher Moore, American Novelist

Suffering, Pain, Faith, Death

"And I'm hoping there's some larger truth about suffering here, or at least my understanding of it - although I've come to realize that the only truths that matter to me are the ones I don't, and can't, understand. What's mysterious, ambiguous, inexplicable. What doesn't fit into a story, what doesn't have a story. Glint of brightness on a barely-there chain. Patch of sunlight on a yellow wall. The loneliness that separates every living creature from every other living creature. Sorrow inseparable from joy."

Donna Tartt, American Novelist

Suffering, Mystery, Ambiguity, Joy

"It is intolerable to have one's sufferings twinned with anybody else's."

Susan Sontag, American Author

Suffering, Individual, Pain, Isolation

"I knew then why I had to suffer. The older we get, the more reasons God gives us to seek His comfort. In the end, He sends us just enough pain and suffering so that we will want to leave. If everything were perfect, we would never choose to go. He wants us to seek an end to our suffering because He wants us to want to come Home."

Kate McGahan, American Author

Suffering, Faith, Pain, God

"Tragedy descends, and in the carnage our enraged cynicism screams 'If there was a God, He would not have allowed this!' And somehow we've conveniently forgotten that once upon a time He allowed us to tell Him to go away, and once upon that time we allowed ourselves to take Him up on that offer."

Craig D. Lounsbrough, American Author

Suffering, Tragedy, Faith, Truth, Power

"Only I don't close my eyes these days, because it hurts too much when I open them."

David Mitchell, British Novelist

Suffering, Pain, Truth, Eye, Emotion

"More commonly suffering breaks people, crushes them, and is simply unilluminating. You see how gruesomely human beings are destroyed by pain, when they have the added torment of losing their humanity first, so that their death is a total defeat..."

Saul Bellow, American Novelist

Suffering, Pain, Humanity, Loss

"Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns: And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns."

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, English Poet

Suffering, Memory, Emotion, Pain

"Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell The tortures of that inward hell!"

Lord Byron, British Poet

Suffering, Pain, Emotion, Reality

"The pain would not leave him. It came to him like the tide that hits the sea."

Faraaz Kazi, Indian Author

Suffering, Pain, Truth, Observation, Wisdom

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"[Jesus] tilted His head back, pulled up one last time to draw breath and cried, 'Tetelestai!' It was a Greek expression most everyone present would have understood. It was an accounting term. Archaeologists have found papyrus tax receipts with 'Tetelestai' written across them, meaning 'paid in full.' With Jesus' last breath on the cross, He declared the debt of sin cancelled, completely satisfied. Nothing else required. Not good deeds. Not generous donations. Not penance or confession or baptism or...or...or...nothing. The penalty for sin is death, and we were all born hopelessly in debt. He paid our debt in full by giving His life so that we might live forever."

Faith

"Peter's destiny lay along a different path from John's. And your calling is unlike anyone else's. But the call remains the same: 'Follow Me!"

Destiny

"[Jesus] plan called for action, and how He expressed it predicted its success. He didn't say 'you might be my witnesses, ' or 'you could be my witnesses, ' or even 'you should be my witnesses.' He said 'you will be my witnesses."

Witness

"When the Lord makes it clear you're to follow Him in this new direction, focus fully on Him and refuse to be distracted by comparisons with others."

Faith

"How important is the heart! It is there that character is formed. It alone holds the secrets of true success."

Power

"If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters.Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude."

Excellence

"The Promised Land was a tangible representation of God's ultimate desire for His people, but they failed to comprehend His gift for at least three reasons: It was unconditionally promised, it was outrageously generous, and it was absolutely free. None of those make sense in the world as we know it."

Theology

"I am often the brunt of my own humor."

Wit

"Like sin itself, Satan appeals to the senses. He originated and perfected the art of disguising evil as good."

Detachment

"Grace has to be the loveliest word in the English language. It embodies almost every attractive quality we hope to find in others. Grace is a gift of the humble to the humiliated. Grace acknowledges the ugliness of sin by choosing to see beyond it. Grace accepts a person as someone worthy of kindness despite whatever grime or hard - shell casing keeps him or her separated from the rest of the world. Grace is a gift of tender mercy when it makes the least sense."

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"It was the sound of a thousand hungry children crying, ten thousand widows tearing their hair over their husband's graves, a chorus of angels singing the last dirge on the day of God's death."

"It is intolerable to have one's sufferings twinned with anybody else's."

"Tragedy descends, and in the carnage our enraged cynicism screams 'If there was a God, He would not have allowed this!' And somehow we've conveniently forgotten that once upon a time He allowed us to tell Him to go away, and once upon that time we allowed ourselves to take Him up on that offer."

"Only I don't close my eyes these days, because it hurts too much when I open them."

"More commonly suffering breaks people, crushes them, and is simply unilluminating. You see how gruesomely human beings are destroyed by pain, when they have the added torment of losing their humanity first, so that their death is a total defeat..."

"Since then, at an uncertain hour, That agony returns: And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns."

"Nor ear can hear nor tongue can tell The tortures of that inward hell!"

"The pain would not leave him. It came to him like the tide that hits the sea."

Explore more quotes by Charles R. Swindoll

"Peter's destiny lay along a different path from John's. And your calling is unlike anyone else's. But the call remains the same: 'Follow Me!"

"[Jesus] plan called for action, and how He expressed it predicted its success. He didn't say 'you *might* be my witnesses, ' or 'you *could* be my witnesses, ' or even 'you *should* be my witnesses.' He said 'you *will* be my witnesses."

"When the Lord makes it clear you're to follow Him in this new direction, focus fully on Him and refuse to be distracted by comparisons with others."

"How important is the heart! It is there that character is formed. It alone holds the secrets of true success."

"If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters.Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude."

"I am often the brunt of my own humor."

"Like sin itself, Satan appeals to the senses. He originated and perfected the art of disguising evil as good."

"[Jesus] plan called for action, and how He expressed it predicted its success. He didn't say 'you might be my witnesses, ' or 'you could be my witnesses, ' or even 'you should be my witnesses.' He said 'you will be my witnesses."