Quotes on Suffering & Trials
Comfort and counsel for the hard road — affliction, sorrow, and the glory it works.
For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, worketh for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.
14 quotations from 7 writers, each traced to the exact paragraph it comes from.
Amanda Berry Smith 1
How often when we are passing through deep trials we look for human sympathy, and lean on the human more than on God.
Andrew Murray 1
Christ’s life and work, His suffering and death—it was all prayer, all dependence on God, trust in God, receiving from God, surrender to God.
Charles H. Spurgeon 2
The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our hearts on the black horse of affliction.
God's people are often chastened, and the Lord's hand lieth heavy upon them; yet there is paternal goodness in their chastenings, and infinite lovingkindness in their tribulations.
George Müller 4
Do but stand still in the hour of trial, and you will see the help of God, if you trust in Him.
The Lord has not laid upon us a burden which is too heavy for us; he is not a hard master.
Do but stand still in the hour of trial, and you will see the help of God, if you trust in him.
From my inmost soul I do ascribe it to God alone that he has enabled me to trust in him, and that hitherto he has not suffered my confidence in him to fail.
Hudson Taylor 1
Sometimes we have trials which we cannot put into prayer; the LORD knows the secrets of our heart.
John Wesley 1
God gives this faith; in that moment we are accepted of God; and yet, not for the sake of that faith, but of what Christ has done and suffered for us.
Thomas à Kempis 4
To glory in adversity is not hard for the man who loves, for this is to glory in the cross of the Lord.
No one understands the passion of Christ so thoroughly or heartily as the man whose lot it is to suffer the like himself.
No man is fit to enjoy heaven unless he has resigned himself to suffer hardship for Christ.
Nothing is more acceptable to God, nothing more helpful for you on this earth than to suffer willingly for Christ.