Inevitable Quotes - Page 14

• Suffering is getting what you do not want while wanting what you do not get.

  J. I. Packer

  Suffering, Want

  J. I. Packer (2009). “Rediscovering Holiness: Know the Fullness of Life with God”, p.178, Baker Books

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• True it is, that he who has taken off his affection from the goods of this world has already sold all, and has made himself poor, so far as depends upon himself; but the fruit and the proof of this spiritual poverty are, patiently to endure the loss of worldly goods, and without any regret, when it pleases our heavenly Father that we should be despoiled of them.

  John Calvin

  Spiritual, Regret, Father

  "Letters of John Calvin".

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• The marks of Jesus are imprisonment, chains, scourgings, blows and stoning in bearing testimony to the Gospel. Galatians 6:17 - 17 Finally, let no one cause me trouble, for I bear on my body the marks of Jesus.

  John Calvin

  Jesus, Blow, Suffering

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• The sufferings of Christ are the means of forgiveness of sin and eternal glory

  John Calvin

  Mean, Suffering, Sin

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• After 50 years, is it not clear that God has raised up new illnesses connected with fornication? From where do these things come if not from the hand of God? [In response to these diseases] The world was astounded, and people were terrified for a time, but they have not, to this day, observed the hand of God.

  John Calvin

  Hands, Years, People

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• Nothing, including human suffering, happens by chance.

  John Calvin

  Suffering, Chance, Humans

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• If you love, you will suffer, and if you do not love, you do not know the meaning of a Christian life.

  Agatha Christie

  Christian, Love You, Suffering

  Agatha Christie (1990). “An autobiography”

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• The deep meaning of the cross of Christ is that there is no suffering on earth that is not borne by God.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Suffering, Earth, Christ

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• Must the Christian go around looking for a cross to bear, seeking to suffer? No, insisted Bonhoeffer. Opportunities for bearing crosses will occur along life's way and all that is required is the willingness to act when the time comes. The needs of the neighbor, especially those of the weak and downtrodden, the victimized and the persecuted, the ill and the lonely, will become abundantly evident.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Lonely, Opportunity

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• The universe is a soul making machine, and part of that process is learning, maturing, and growing through difficult and challenging and painful experiences. The point of our lives in this world isn't comfort, but training and preparation for eternity.

  Lee Strobel

  Painful Experiences, Challenges, Soul

  Lee Strobel (2000). “The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity”, p.41, Harper Collins

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• The most devastating effect of sin is that by it, we are blinded to it.

  Billy Graham

  Suffering, Sin, Effects

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• Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.

  Philip Yancey

  Suffering, Tragedy, Faith In God

  Philip Yancey (1997). “Where Is God When It Hurts?”, p.85, Zondervan

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• But we are gravely mistaken to think that Christianity protects us from the pain and agony of mortal existence. Christianity has always insisted that the cross we bear precedes the crown we wear. To be a Christian, one must take up his cross, with all of its difficulties and agonizing and tragedy-packed content, and carry it until that very cross leaves its marks upon us and redeems us to that more excellent way which comes only through suffering.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Suffering, Crowns, Bears

  "A Gift of Love: Sermons from Strength to Love and Other Preachings".

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• The only thing wrong with Christianity is the lack of suffering.

  Winston Churchill

  Suffering, Christianity

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• If we were never depressed we would not be alive - only material things don't suffer depression. If human beings were not capable of depression, we would have no capacity for happiness and exaltation. Whenever you examine yourself, take into your capacity for depression.

  Oswald Chambers

  Suffering, Exaltation, Alive

  "My Utmost for His Highest".

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• Adversity often produces an unexpected opportunity. Look for it ! Appreciate and utilize it! This is difficult to do if you're feeling sorry for yourself because you're faced with adversity.

  John Wooden

  Motivational, Sorry, Adversity

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• We will suffer a sharp painful disullisionment before we fully surrender. When people really see themselves as the Lord sees them, it is not the terribly offensive sins of the fleshthat shock them, but the awful nature of the pride of their own hearts opposing Jesus Christ. When they see themselves in the light of the Lord, the shame, the horror, and desperate conviction hit home for them.

  Oswald Chambers

  Jesus, Home, Heart

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• It seems inevitable that the magic of the written word will fade.

  Hugh Mackay

  Magic, Lovely, Written Word

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• ...the case for individual freedom rests largely on the recognition of the inevitable and universal ignorance of all of us concerning a great many of the factors on which the achievements of our ends and welfare depend.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Ignorance, Achievement, Liberty

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• To the masses, the catchwords of Socialism sound so enticing... so they will continue to work for Socialism, helping thereby to bring about the inevitable decline of the civilization which the nations of the West have taken thousands of years to build up.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Taken, Years, Civilization

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• The old scientific ideal of episteme - of absolutely certain, demonstrable knowledge - has proved to be an idol. The demand for scientific objectivity makes it inevitable that every scientific statement must remain tentative for ever.

  Karl Popper

  Science, Objectivity, Idols

  Karl Popper (2005). “The Logic of Scientific Discovery”, p.280, Routledge

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• On our planet, all objects are subject to continual and inevitable changes which arise from the essential order of things. These changes take place at a variable rate according to the nature, condition, or situation of the objects involved, but are nevertheless accomplished within a certain period of time. Time is insignificant and never a difficulty for Nature. It is always at her disposal and represents an unlimited power with which she accomplishes her greatest and smallest tasks.

  Jean-Baptiste Lamarck

  Change, Nature, Science

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• The inevitable consequence of poverty is dependence.

  Samuel Johnson

  Wisdom, Politics, Poverty

  Samuel Johnson, Roger H. Lonsdale (2006). “Samuel Johnson's Lives of the Poets”, p.117, Oxford University Press

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• A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible-indeed, inevitable-the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of Earth; let us hope that the transition period will not be equally bloody.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Communication, Years, America

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• Urging humans to be superhumans, on pain of death and torture, is the urging of terrible self-abasement at their repeated and inevitable failure to keep the rules.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Pain, Self

  Christopher Hitchens (2011). “God is Not Great”, p.152, Atlantic Books Ltd

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