Believe Quote by Ernest Holmes

I do not believe that God tortures any person simply for its own sake. I believe that God enables all things to work for…

— James McGreevey

God does not punish us for our sins but by them.

— Ruth Graham

“Suffering is not God’s desire for us, but it occurs in the process of life. Suffering is not given to teach us something, but…

— Adam Hamilton

God does not punish directly. His ways are inscrutable.

— Mahatma Gandhi

I cannot believe that God wants punishment to go on interminably any more than does a loving parent. The entire purpose of loving punishment…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“God never sends suffering. Never. It is never "God's will" that we should suffer. God would like us not to suffer. But since the…

— Wendy Beckett

“The only way I can process it is through my faith. That God was not going to let suffer all this in vain. Why…

— Rabia Chaudry

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must…

— Anne Morrow Lindbergh

I know that God is not going to willfully hurt us. Why there is suffering is the business of the Lord, but He never…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

God also allows suffering so that we might learn what it means to depend on Him, not on our own strength and resources.

— Charles R. Swindoll

I don't think ultimately God punishes. I think we bring about our own destruction or our own creation.

— Madonna Ciccone

Let us understand that God is a physician, and that suffering is a medicine for salvation, not a punishment for damnation.

— Saint Augustine