Answers Quote by Tullian Tchividjian

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

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

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

“Perhaps our dreams are there to be broken, and our plans are there to crumble, and our tomorrows are there to dissolve into todays,…

— Jeff Foster

Suffering can refine us rather than destroy us because God himself walks with us in the fire.

— Timothy Keller

Only through suffering can we find ourselves.

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

We want to avoid suffering, death, sin, ashes. But we live in a world crushed and broken and torn, a world God Himself visited…

— Elisabeth Elliot

Whether you are religious or nonreligious, may you find solace in the knowledge that the suffering is ours, but that those we love suffer…

— Susan Jacoby

To God on whom we rely knows what suffering is all about- not merely in the way that God knows everything, but by experience.

— D. A. Carson

We all need to realize that there are people out there who may be suffering and we all need to try to do our…

— Alex Bregman

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