Suffering is Never for Nothing Quotes

“Do the next thing.” I don’t know any simpler formula for peace, for relief from stress and anxiety than that very practical, very down-to-earth word of wisdom. Do the next thing. That has gotten me through more agonies than anything else I could recommend.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering Is Never for Nothing

“The deepest things that I have learned in my own life have come from the deepest suffering. And out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires have come the deepest things that I know about God.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing

“If your faith rests in your idea of how God is supposed to answer your prayers, your idea of heaven here on earth or pie in the sky or whatever, then that kind of faith is very shaky and is bound to be demolished when the storms of life hit it. But if your faith rests on the character of Him who is the eternal I AM, then that kind of faith is rugged and will endure.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering Is Never for Nothing

“We are not adrift in chaos. To me that is the most fortifying, the most stabilizing, the most peace-giving thing that I know about anything in the universe. Every time that things have seemingly fallen apart in my life, I have gone back to those things that do not change. Nothing in the universe can ever change those facts. He loves me. I am not at the mercy of chance.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing

“Whatever is in the cup that God is offering to me, whether it be pain and sorrow and suffering and grief along with the many more joys, I’m willing to take it because I trust Him.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing

“You either believe God knows what He's doing or you believe He doesn't. You either believe He's worth trusting or you say He's not. And then, where are you? You're at the mercy of chaos not cosmos. Chaos is the Greek word for disorder. Cosmos is the word for order. We either live in an ordered universe or we are trying to create our own reality.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing

“There have been some hard things in my life, of course, as there have been in yours, and I cannot say to you, I know exactly what you’re going through. But I can say that I know the One who knows. And I’ve come to see that it’s through the deepest suffering that God has taught me the deepest lessons. And if we’ll trust Him for it, we can come through to the unshakable assurance that He’s in charge. He has a loving purpose. And He can transform something terrible into something wonderful. Suffering is never for nothing.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering Is Never for Nothing

“It’s only in the cross that we can begin to harmonize this seeming contradiction between suffering and love.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering Is Never for Nothing

“Just start thanking God in advance because no matter what is about to happen, you already know that God is in charge. You are not adrift in a sea of chaos.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing

“I’m convinced that there are a good many things in this life that we really can’t do anything about, but that God wants us to do something with.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering Is Never for Nothing

“There is, in fact, no redemptive work done anywhere without suffering.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering Is Never for Nothing

“And I’ve come to see that it’s through the deepest suffering that God has taught me the deepest lessons. And if we’ll trust Him for it, we can come through to the unshakable assurance that He’s in charge. He has a loving purpose. And He can transform something terrible into something wonderful. Suffering is never for nothing.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering Is Never for Nothing

“The love of God is not a sentiment. It is a willed and inexorable love that will command nothing less than the very best for us. The love of God wills our joy. I think of the love of God as being synonymous with the will of God.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing

“Faith is not a feeling. Faith is willed obedience in action.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing

“It’s He who was the Word before the foundation of the world, suffering as a lamb slain. And He has a lot up His sleeve that you and I haven’t the slightest idea about now. He’s told us enough so that we know suffering is never for nothing.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing

“But when the answer is no, then we know that God has something better at stake. Far greater things are at stake. There is another level, another kingdom, an invisible kingdom which you and I cannot see now but toward which we move and to which we belong.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing

“Some day, even you will see that there's sense in this. Your suffering is never for nothing.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing

“Although I have not found intellectual satisfaction, I have found peace. The answer I say to you is not an explanation but a person, Jesus Christ, my Lord and my God.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing

“When stormy winds against us break stablish and reinforce our will; O hear us for Thine own Name’s sake, hold us in strength, and hold us still. Still as the faithful mountains stand, through the long, silent years of stress; so would we wait at Thy right hand in quietness and steadfastness.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering Is Never for Nothing

“If I thank God for this very thing which is killing me I can begin, dimly and faintly, to see it as a gift. I can realize that it is through that very thing, which is so far from being the thing I would have chosen, that God wants to teach me His way of salvation. I will take the cup of salvation and call on the name of the Lord. I will say, “yes Lord.” I will say, “thank you, Lord.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing

“Jesus comes into our lives in these places of need. And if we recognize Him because of our need, then we can receive whatever it is that He is prepared to offer us whether it’s the grace of forgiveness or the patience to wait for the answer to that prayer or healing or serenity in the midst of the worst times of your life. Whatever it is, you can receive it and say, “Thank You, Lord.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering Is Never for Nothing

“We had a little brass plate over the front doorbell that said “Christ is the head of this home, the unseen guest at every meal, the silent listener to every conversation.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering Is Never for Nothing

“The Bible’s answers are never to be separated from the God of the Bible.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering Is Never for Nothing

“So if you get all hung up, thinking now is this thing from God or is it from Satan? Is this the voice of God or the voice of Satan? Stop worrying about it. You don't really need to sort that out because here's a case where the thorn was in a sense given by God as a messenger of Satan.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing

“But I can say that I know the One who knows. And I’ve come to see that it’s through the deepest suffering that God has taught me the deepest lessons. And if we’ll trust Him for it, we can come through to the unshakable assurance that He’s in charge. He has a loving purpose. And He can transform something terrible into something wonderful. Suffering is never for nothing.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing

“Well, that’s what faith is about, isn’t it? If you really believe that somebody loves you then you trust them. The will of God is love. And love suffers. That’s how we know what”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering Is Never for Nothing

“15 Well that sounds pretty brave and strong, doesn’t it? But listen to the last stanza, “But not of us this strength, O Lord, and not of us this constancy. Our trust is Thine eternal Word, Thy presence our security.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering Is Never for Nothing

“We need Jesus Christ, our refuge, our fortress, the stronghold of my life. It takes desolation to teach us our need of Him.”
― Elisabeth Elliot, Suffering is Never for Nothing