A faith that can be destroyed by suffering is not faith.

For both faith and want of faith have destroyed men alike.

— Hesiod

“What the ultra-conservative (or the merely timid and compliant) fail to realize is that a Christianity which wields its moral and dogmatic authority like…

— Angela Tilby

“Healing comes by faith. Faith is destroyed by doubt. If you doubt whether God wants people to be healed, you won’t see them healed.”

— Praying Medic

“What a story it is. It is filled with suffering and hunger and cold and death. It is replete with accounts of freezing rivers…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

A nominal Christian often discovers in suffering that his faith has been in his church, denomination, or family tradition, but not Christ. As he…

— Randy Alcorn

“Faith does not minimize our suffering. Faith does not say, “It’s no big deal.” Faith does not pretend that a situation is not painful…

— Matthew C. Mitchell

“Thank God for whatever measure of religious freedom you enjoy—and pray today for those suffering for their faith in Christ.”

— Billy Graham

“The fourth is the thought of the sorrows that Christ bore gladly for us. If the only Man who ever could choose His fate…

— Richard Wurmbrand

If you abide in the love of Christ, rooted in the faith, you will encounter, even amid setbacks and suffering, the source of true…

— Pope Benedict XVI

“Yet the same God who sustained Job’s faith sustains ours. God, not the strength of our faith, is our hope.”

— Zondervan Publishing

We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of…

— R. C. Sproul

Suffering did different things to different people...Some souls became tempered, unshakable in their faith, while others became twisted and mis-shapen, throwing off all connection…

— Naomi Ragen

Evil cannot be "treated" -- nor should it be. Evil has to [be] confronted and destroyed and it matters not why the evil is…

— Bill O'Reilly

Poetry fettered, fetters the human race. Nations are destroyed or flourish in proportion as their poetry, painting, and music are destroyed or flourish.

— William Blake

To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say…

— Kingsley Amis