Quotes of Note about God’s Healing for Life’s Losses, Part 2
Note: The following Quotes of Note are excerpted with permission from Chapter One of God’s Healing for Life’s Losses.
“In suffering, God is not getting back at you; He is getting you back to Himself.”
“Suffering is meant to teach us our need again.”
“Suffering opens our hands to God.”
“God wants to give us something, but cannot, because our hands are full—there is nowhere for Him to put it” (Augustine).
“Perhaps we suffer so inordinately because God loves us so inordinately and is taming us. God loves us too much to allow us to forget our neediness.”
“God makes therapeutic use of our suffering. Suffering creates in the child of God a delicious despair. Suffering is God’s putrid tasting medicine of choice resulting in delicious healing for our ultimate sickness—the arrogance that we do not need God.”
“Suffering causes us to groan for home and to live in hope. Suffering reminds us that we’re not home yet.”
“Our world is a mess and it messes with our minds.”
“God refuses to allow us to get too comfy here. Instead, He allows suffering—daily casket processionals—to blacken our sun so we cry out to His Son.”
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