Ability Quote by Tullian Tchividjian

God wants us to be totally dependent on Him, and suffering seems to bring us to that point.

— Joyce Meyer

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

God always seems bigger to those who need him most. And suffering is the tool he uses to help us need him more.

— Joni Eareckson Tada

There's nothing like suffering to remind us how not in control we actually are, how little power we ultimately have, and how much we…

— Tullian Tchividjian

Indeed, there is nothing like suffering to remind us how much we need God. What good news that His purpose and plan for our…

— Tullian Tchividjian

“God knows suffering, not because he created it, but because He experiences it with us. ... It is also true that although God knows…

— Nancy Rue

Whether it's a Christian or a non-Christian, there's nothing like suffering to show us how small, needy, and not in control we are. Suffering…

— Tullian Tchividjian

The Why's of suffering keep us shrouded in a seemingly bottomless void of abstraction where God is reduced to a finite ethical agent, a…

— Tullian Tchividjian

God has a way of helping you to move through suffering and actually become stronger.

— Eric Greitens

I don't know where we got the notion that God wants us to suffer. Every living thing tends toward the good or we would…

— Al Jarreau

God creates us free, free to be selfish, but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the…

— William Nicholson

Suffering can serve us. Suffering tests our trust in God's promises. And we have a great interest in knowing the truth about our trust…

— Mark Dever