Lee Strobel Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• 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

• So much of the world's suffering results from the sinful action or inaction of ourselves and others. For example, people look at a famine and wonder where God is, but the world produces enough food for each person to have 3,000 calories a day. It's our own irresponsibility and self-centeredness that prevents people from getting fed.

  Lee Strobel

  Self, People, Suffering

• Courage would be impossible in a world without pain.

  Lee Strobel

  Pain, Suffering, Would Be

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

• When you are in the midst of suffering you are looking for someone to be Jesus to you. You are looking for someone to love you and help take care of you, and reach out to you.

  Lee Strobel

  Jesus, Love You, Suffering

• Moral evil is the immorality and pain and suffering and tragedy that come because we choose to be selfish, arrogant, uncaring, hateful and abusive.

  Lee Strobel

  Pain, Selfish, Evil

  "Lee Strobel Probes 'Why?' During First Sunday Service After Colorado Shooting" by Alex Murashko, www.christianpost.com. July 23, 2012.

• It is very difficult to give a 15 second sound bite on why there is pain and suffering in this world and not have it come off as being flippant or surface level or superficial.

  Lee Strobel

  Pain, Giving, Suffering

  "Interview: Lee Strobel Makes Case for Faith ... Again". Interview with Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. September 25, 2008.

• There are Eastern religions that deny the reality of pain and suffering. They just try to wipe it away by saying it's all an illusion.

  Lee Strobel

  Pain, Reality, Suffering

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