God never allows pain without a purpose.
– Jerry Bridges
God | Pain | Purpose
He has a purpose in every pain He allows in our lives.
– Jerry Bridges
Pain | God
A teardrop on earth summons the King of heaven.
– Chuck Swindoll
Pain | Discouragement
Your greatest ministry will most likely come out of your greatest hurt.
– Rick Warren
Pain | Hurt | Ministry
I don’t so much pray that my death will be without pain, but that it will be without doubt.
– John Piper
Death | Pain | Doubt
I do not think that we should look upon painful experiences too pessimistically. Surely they are more profitable than we think at the time we are going through the anguish connected with them. But if they are to be of any benefit to us, we must, in the first place, be truthful and not begin to practice deception, that is, excuse and defend our slovenly prayer life. We must admit our weakness in prayer; admit that we are faced with a problem which cannot be solved by our own efforts.
– Ole Hallesby
Pain | Deception
Dear Lord, in all our loneliest pains Thou hast the largest share and that which is unbearable,’Tis Thine, not ours, to bear.
– Frederick W. Faber
Pain
One of the main ways we move from abstract knowledge about God to a personal encounter with him as a living reality is through the furnace of affliction.
– Tim Keller
Pain | God
Don’t waste your pain; use it to help others.
– Rick Warren
Pain | Helping
The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That’s the deal.
– C.S. Lewis
Pain
If you had never known physical pain in your life, how could you appreciate the nail scarred hands with which Jesus Christ will meet you?
– Joni Eareckson Tada
Pain
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
Pain
The moment an ill can be patiently handled, it is disarmed of its poison, though not of its pain.
– Henry Ward Beecher
Patience | Pain | Illness
Can we follow the Savior far, who have no wound or scar?
– Assorted Authors
Pain
Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
– Harriet Beecher Stowe
Pain
It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain.
– John Henry Newman
Pain
Pain is a kindly, hopeful thing, a certain proof of life, a clear assurance that all is not yet over, that there is still a chance. But if your heart has no pain — well, that may betoken health, as you suppose: but are you certain that it does not mean that your soul is dead?
– A. J. Gossip
Pain
Yearning for yesterday my heart wants to cry, when autumn reminds me of better days gone by.n
– Judy Harrell
Pain
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
Pain
We do not wisely when we vent complaint and censure. We cry out for a little pain, when we do but smile for a great deal of contentment.
– Owen Feltham
Pain
Pain is no evil, unless it conquers us.
– Charles Kingsley
Pain
Pleasure is nothing else but the intermission of pain.
– John Selden
Pain
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
Pain | Conscience
God wants us to choose to love him freely, even when that choice involves pain, because we are committed to him, not to our own good feelings and rewards. He wants us to cleave to him, as Job did, even when we have every reason to deny him hotly.
– Philip Yancey
Pain
Pain is a kindly, hopeful thing, a certain proof of life, a clear assurance that all is not yet over, that there is still a chance. But if your heart has no pain — well, that may betoken health, as you suppose: but are you certain that it does not mean that your soul is dead?
– A.J. Gossip
Pain
God intentionally allows you to go through painful experiences to equip you for ministry to others.
– Rick Warren
Pain
Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God’s scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.
– Phillips Brooks
The Cross | Pain | Suffering
We cannot pass our guardian angel’s bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
– Augustine
Angels | Pain
Pain removes the veil; it plants the flag of truth within the fortress of a rebel soul.
– C.S. Lewis
Pain
God wants us to choose to love him freely, even when that choice involves pain, because we are committed to him, not to our own good feelings and rewards. He wants us to cleave to him, as Job did, even when we have every reason to deny him hotly.
– Phillips Brooks
Pain
Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God’s scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.
– Philip Yancey
The Cross | Pain | Suffering