Why All People Suffer Quotes

“To be joyful is to experience perfection, to share in the divine nature; in some sense, to become like God (8)”
― Paul Chaloux, Why All People Suffer: How a Loving God Uses Suffering to Perfect Us

“Joy is not in opposition to suffering it is the outcome of successfully meeting its challenges and completing its tasks (9)”
― Paul Chaloux, Why All People Suffer: How a Loving God Uses Suffering to Perfect Us

“Understood properly, suffering gives us hope for the Beatific vision and the motivation to attain it. (270)”
― Paul Chaloux, Why All People Suffer: How a Loving God Uses Suffering to Perfect Us

“This is the ultimate role of suffering: to facilitate our return to our heavenly Father, Who loves us more than we love ourselves and in Whose presence we will find joy and fulfillment (10)”
― Paul Chaloux, Why All People Suffer: How a Loving God Uses Suffering to Perfect Us

“When we encounter those who suffer, we should not see them as sinners or complainers, but as instruments of God’s mercy and specifically as messengers of what was revealed to them (16)”
― Paul Chaloux, Why All People Suffer: How a Loving God Uses Suffering to Perfect Us

“Suffering is not something to overcome, it is something to be heeded (19)”
― Paul Chaloux, Why All People Suffer: How a Loving God Uses Suffering to Perfect Us

“At its deepest level, suffering is a call to conversion by God (18).”
― Paul Chaloux, Why All People Suffer: How a Loving God Uses Suffering to Perfect Us

“Suffering has a way of turning a person inward, toward where God resides (xvii)”
― Paul Chaloux, Why All People Suffer: How a Loving God Uses Suffering to Perfect Us

“Suffering needs to be persistent and uncomfortable to warn us of the threat from evil and motivate us to take action to eliminate it (11)”
― Paul Chaloux, Why All People Suffer: How a Loving God Uses Suffering to Perfect Us

“Suffering is not evil, it is an evil-detector (11)”
― Paul Chaloux, Why All People Suffer: How a Loving God Uses Suffering to Perfect Us

“Suffering is our innate ability to sense the presence of evil; or, more accurately, the absence of good that is significant enough to threaten our existence physically, socially, psychologically, or spiritually (13)”
― Paul Chaloux, Why All People Suffer: How a Loving God Uses Suffering to Perfect Us

“There is no malice in God; only love (16)”
― Paul Chaloux, Why All People Suffer: How a Loving God Uses Suffering to Perfect Us

“God’s purpose is always to rehabilitate us; it is never to destroy us (16)”
― Paul Chaloux, Why All People Suffer: How a Loving God Uses Suffering to Perfect Us

“Evil exists only as a privation of good, and God withholds or takes away goodness either to redirect of to improve mankind in some way (162)”
― Paul Chaloux, Why All People Suffer: How a Loving God Uses Suffering to Perfect Us

“God can carry out His plans without infringing on human free will in the following manner: God creates an environment that will motivate each person to act in accordance with his plans (167)”
― Paul Chaloux, Why All People Suffer: How a Loving God Uses Suffering to Perfect Us

“There are no accidents for an omnipotent and omniscient God; everything is part of His Plan (162)”
― Paul Chaloux, Why All People Suffer: How a Loving God Uses Suffering to Perfect Us

“God has a plan for you and even if you cannot see where it is going, trust Him and following where He leads you (xvii)”
― Paul Chaloux, Why All People Suffer: How a Loving God Uses Suffering to Perfect Us

“1. The ultimate message of the theology of suffering is one that provides the perspective that God loves us as only the Creator of the Universe could (270)”
― Paul Chaloux, Why All People Suffer: How a Loving God Uses Suffering to Perfect Us