Hope when it hurts Quotes

“The reality is that physical or emotional pain, especially when it is chronic, has a way of stripping away the masks we tend to wear, leaving our hearts exposed and our self-sufficient ways of life threatened.”
― Kristen Wetherell, Hope When It Hurts: Biblical reflections to help you grasp God's purpose in your suffering

“When we are humbled and completely dependent on the Lord in the wilderness, it teaches us to remember, even in times of comfort and abundance, that it is God’s faithfulness and power, and not our own strength or wisdom, that we most need.”
― Kristen Wetherell, Hope When It Hurts: Biblical reflections to help you grasp God's purpose in your suffering

“The fear of the Lord means that we worship him for who he is, not some domesticated shrunk-down version that we’re more comfortable with, but who does not exist and cannot save. God is not a house cat, he is a lion—and while you may love a house cat, you fear a lion. You live in awe of its power, even as you admire its beauty.”
― Kristen Wetherell, Hope When It Hurts: Biblical reflections to help you grasp God's purpose in your suffering

“Pain is never pleasant, but nothing can compare to the pain of eternity without God. And so my pain today is a small glimpse of what I have been saved from. How much more can we grasp the beautiful and glorious promise of eternity with our Savior, free from pain, when we have a daily reminder of what we have been saved from? This truth of the gospel gives us a reason, purpose and hope to endure.”
― Kristen Wetherell, Hope When It Hurts: Biblical reflections to help you grasp God's purpose in your suffering

“For those who love God—whether that love is great, small, or just clinging on—God works all things together for good. As we grasp this, we realize that the Lord won’t waste a moment of the pain and suffering that often feels pointless and random to us.”
― Kristen Wetherell, Hope When It Hurts: Biblical reflections to help you grasp God's purpose in your suffering

“Yes, we are jars of clay, and there are times and seasons of life where the clay is particularly cracked and dry. But always, we are jars of clay containing treasure—the treasure of the gospel. Rather than being downcast about our clay-ness, let’s be awe-struck that we’re treasure-bearers, and amazed that it’s our very clay-ness that helps the treasure shine more brightly.”
― Kristen Wetherell, Hope When It Hurts: Biblical reflections to help you grasp God's purpose in your suffering

“you. We may experience loneliness on many levels but because he went before us, we will never have to experience the crushing loneliness of separation from God the Father, as he did. Our loving Father sent his own Son down the loneliest road ever known to man so that we would never have to walk any road apart from him.”
― Kristen Wetherell, Hope When It Hurts: Biblical reflections to help you grasp God's purpose in your suffering

“We can easily be defined by our pain and view everything else, including the mercy God gives us, through its dim prism; rather than defining ourselves by God’s mercy, and seeing all else in that glorious light.”
― Kristen Wetherell, Hope When It Hurts: Biblical reflections to help you grasp God's purpose in your suffering

“If you have trusted Christ to save your soul, even the most dire suffering will not lead you to ultimate destruction, but to the One who went through hell so you would never have to. Suffering will not lead you to hopelessness, but to the God of hope. It will not lead your faith to be shattered, but to an unshakeable hope that is founded on an immoveable Rock: Christ Jesus.”
― Kristen Wetherell, Hope When It Hurts: Biblical reflections to help you grasp God's purpose in your suffering

“When nothing seems to make sense in life and you feel yourself being tossed by the waves, you will not be driven onto the rocks of despair as you learn to anchor yourself with Christ’s loving control, perfect wisdom, and unchanging character. Hold firm to the truth of the gospel and your anchor will not fail, and he will bring you into the harbor—however many redirections it requires.”
― Kristen Wetherell, Hope When It Hurts: Biblical reflections to help you grasp God's purpose in your suffering

“Don’t give up or give way to despair, for there is a glorious treasure to be found when the pain of this world drives us to Jesus, and it is of far greater worth than any earthly relief. Yes, pain and affliction are real in this world. Jesus knows that. But what could crush you can, as you struggle on in faith, be the means of reshaping you.”
― Kristen Wetherell, Hope When It Hurts: Biblical reflections to help you grasp God's purpose in your suffering

“The reality is that no one can fully enter into our pain in the way our Savior can, the only one who knows us intimately and has walked this hard road before us. We are not left to endure the pain of this life in loneliness and our own strength. Rather, we serve a God who bears the physical scars of his love for us, and sympathizes with us as one who has lived as a human being and suffered more than you or I will ever have to know.”
― Kristen Wetherell, Hope When It Hurts: Biblical reflections to help you grasp God's purpose in your suffering

“Attempting to always make sense of God's mysterious purposes isn't actually faith. It's accepting only parts of God that we are comfortable with or can explain to ourselves.”
― Kristen Wetherell, Hope when it hurts: Biblical reflections to help you grasp God's purpose in your suffering

“A perpetual state of anxiety over what is ultimately out of our control comes to dominate our lives. Affliction causes anxiety—and anxiety crushes us as, bit by bit, it sucks the joy and peace from our lives.”
― Kristen Wetherell, Hope When It Hurts: Biblical reflections to help you grasp God's purpose in your suffering

“We need God’s gospel to suffer well. We need it every day, and never more than when life hurts. The better we know it, and the more we remind ourselves of it, the more precious we will realize it is. Without it, suffering makes no sense (and neither will this book!)—with it, suffering is transformed.”
― Kristen Wetherell, Hope When It Hurts: Biblical reflections to help you grasp God's purpose in your suffering