Bears Quote by Alan Paton

No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.

— Oswald Chambers

Christianity doesn’t deny the reality of suffering and evil… Our hope… is not based on the idea that we are going to be free…

— Brennan Manning

Suffering is actually at the heart of the Christian story.

— Timothy Keller

If Christ is God, He cannot sin, and if suffering was a sin in and by itself, He could not have suffered and died…

— Anonymous

Despite the obvious emphasis of Scripture (in regard to suffering), we are bombarded by suggestions that the 'successful' Christian living takes place in the…

— Alistair Begg

“The suffering of the Christian or anyone else in this world is never ultimately an accident. All suffering is within the pale of divine…

— R.C. Sproul

“Suffering is universal; how we react to suffering is individual. Suffering can...be a strengthening and purifying experience combined with faith, or it can be…

— Robert D. Hales

Suffering is arguably God's choicest tool in shaping the character of Christ in us.

— Joni Eareckson Tada

The sufferings and death of Jesus Christ are a substitution for the endless punishment of all who truly believe on Him.

— Nehemiah Adams

Suffering does not call into question the "big picture" of the Christian faith. It reminds us that we do not see the whole picture,…

— Alister E. McGrath

Suffering is nothing by itself. But suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift, the most beautiful gift, a token of…

— Mother Teresa

Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the composition of…

— Mahatma Gandhi