Billy Graham Quotes About Suffering

Quotes about: Suffering

• If Christianity is valid, why is there so much evil in the world?" To this the famous preacher replied, "With so much soap, why are there so many dirty people in the world? Christianity, like soap, must be personally applied if it is to make a difference in our lives.

  Billy Graham

  Dirty, Differences, People

• Suffering in life can uncover untold depths of character and unknown strength for service. People who go through life unscathed by sorrow and untouched by pain tend to be shallow in their perspectives on life. Suffering, on the other hand, tends to plow up the surface of our lives to uncover the depths that provide greater strength of purpose and accomplishment. Only deeply plowed earth can yield bountiful harvests.

  Billy Graham

  Pain, Character, Yield

  FaceBook post by Billy Graham from Jul 24, 2015

• A suffering person does not need a lecture - he needs a listener.

  Billy Graham

  Suffering, Doe, Needs

  Twitter post from Jul 24, 2015

• Even if we may not always understand why God allows certain things to happen to us, we can know He is able to bring good out of evil, and triumph out of suffering.

  Billy Graham

  God, Evil, Suffering

• You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.

  Billy Graham

  Suffering, Born, Dies

• The most remarkable thing about suffering is that God can use it for our good.

  Billy Graham

  Suffering, Use, Remarkable

  Franklin Graham, Billy Graham (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.334, Thomas Nelson Inc

• Suffering is part of the human condition, and it comes to us all. The key is how we react to it, either turning away from God in anger and bitterness or growing closer to Him in trust and confidence.

  Billy Graham

  Keys, Suffering, Growing

  Billy Graham (1998). “Just As I Am: The Autobiography of Billy Graham”, HarperCollins

• I have been asked hundreds of times in my life why God allows tragedy and suffering. I have to confess that I really do not know the answer totally, even to my own satisfaction. I have to accept, by faith, that God is sovereign, and He is a God of love and mercy and compassion in the midst of suffering.

  Billy Graham

  Compassion, Suffering, Tragedy

  Address at the Episcopal National Cathedral, Delivered 14 September, National Day of Prayer and Remembrance, Washington D.C.

• Christ did not suffer and die to offer cheap grace. Jesus did not go willingly to the cross so we could have an easy life or offer a faith built on easy-believism. As someone once said, 'Salvation is free, but not cheap.' It cost Jesus His life.

  Billy Graham

  Jesus, Grace, Suffering

• We must never minimize the suffering of another. Scripture's mandate to us is, "Weep with them that weep." (Romans 12:15, KJV)

  Billy Graham

  Compassion, Suffering, Scripture

  Billy Graham, William Griffin, Ruth Graham Dienert, Ruth Graham (1994). “The faithful Christian: an anthology of Billy Graham”, McCracken Pr

• Like Joseph storing up grain during the years of plenty to be used during the years of famine that lay ahead, may we store up the truths of God's Word in our hearts as much as possible, so that we are prepared for whatever suffering we are called upon to endure.

  Billy Graham

  Heart, Years, Suffering

• Suffering can give us opportunities to witness. The world is a gigantic hospital; nowhere is there a greater chance to see the peace and joy of the Lord than when the journey though the valley is the darkest.

  Billy Graham

  Opportunity, Journey, Giving

  Billy Graham (1994). “Death and the Life After”, p.56, Thomas Nelson Inc

• Those who have suffered make the best comforters.

  Billy Graham

  Suffering, Comforter

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

  Billy Graham

  Suffering, Sin, Inevitable

• Behind the love of God lies His imniscience - His ability to "know and understand all." . . . At all times, even in the midst of any type of suffering, I can realize that He knows, loves, watches, understands, and, more than that, He has a purpose.

  Billy Graham

  Love, Lying, Suffering

  Billy Graham (2012). “Hope for Each Day: Morning & Evening Devotions”, p.258, Thomas Nelson Inc

• In a very real sense, the suffering of this world was created by man himself.

  Billy Graham

  Real, Men, Suffering

• It takes suffering to widen the soul.

  Billy Graham

  Soul, Suffering

• The word of God teaches that Christians suffer in order that they might glorify God in their lives.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Order, Suffering

  Billy Graham (1966). “The Quotable Billy Graham”

• I only know that when Jesus is with a person, that one can endure the deepest suffering and somehow emerge a better and stronger Christian because of it.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Jesus, Suffering

  Billy Graham (2010). “Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional”, p.54, Thomas Nelson Inc

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