God Is Just Not Fair Quotes

“If God allows you to wrestle with him, it is not so there will be a winner and a loser. He doesn’t need to prove he is stronger and you are weaker. No. The point of wrestling with God is to give you an opportunity to cling to him. God wants you to hang on to him no matter what — and the result will be blessing. You are blessed when you bring your hurts and questions to God and struggle with them in his presence. In that divine wrestling match, you may feel wounded, but you will also receive a blessing you couldn’t have received any other way.”
― Jennifer Rothschild, God Is Just Not Fair: Finding Hope When Life Doesn't Make Sense

“Through God's grace, he gives us a wealth of resources to bear any burden he allows. Therefore, if God doesn't empty our cup of suffering or take it from us, he will give ample grace (favor, kindness, ability) to bear it.”
― Jennifer Rothschild, God Is Just Not Fair: Finding Hope When Life Doesn’t Make Sense

“God’s ways may seem strange to us, but his ways do not have to live up to our standards or our analysis. He is who he is, and we are who we are. He is beyond error, perfect in all his ways. If his ways confuse or disappoint you, guard against the temptation to re-create him into a god you like better. You and I are to humble ourselves before him and seek to conform to his standard, not the other way around. He is sovereign and good, compassionate and merciful. If we do not accept God in his wholeness, we will never experience our own.”
― Jennifer Rothschild, God Is Just Not Fair: Finding Hope When Life Doesn’t Make Sense

“God allows you to struggle, even though his power could prevent it, because his wise and compassionate authority knows that the benefit of your struggle far outweighs the comfort you may experience from his rescue.”
― Jennifer Rothschild, God Is Just Not Fair: Finding Hope When Life Doesn’t Make Sense

“Your difficulty can be hard enough, but the resentment or anger you drag along with it can be even more debilitating than the difficulty itself.”
― Jennifer Rothschild, God Is Just Not Fair: Finding Hope When Life Doesn’t Make Sense

“He sometimes allows something bad in our lives to prevent something far worse in our lives. That is a wondrous work of God I cannot even see, because sometimes I have no idea how God is working on my behalf.”
― Jennifer Rothschild, God Is Just Not Fair: Finding Hope When Life Doesn’t Make Sense

“God is just in the way he cares for each of his children. We can rest in his just, righteous, and merciful character.”
― Jennifer Rothschild, God Is Just Not Fair: Finding Hope When Life Doesn't Make Sense

“Gratitude can break any chains of resentment that may be binding you to sorrow or bitterness. Your difficulty can be hard enough, but the resentment or anger you drag along with it can be even more debilitating than the difficulty itself.”
― Jennifer Rothschild, God Is Just Not Fair: Finding Hope When Life Doesn't Make Sense

“When rough things happen to us, it’s as if they rip holes in the fabric of our faith, or what I sometimes call our “blanket of faith.”
― Jennifer Rothschild, God Is Just Not Fair: Finding Hope When Life Doesn't Make Sense