God Sickness Quotes

#1. There seems to be a human instinct for prayer. Swiss theologian Karl Barth calls it our 'incurable God-sickness.'

Timothy Keller

#2. Thus the Stoics arrive at their main thesis. Virtue alone is admirable, virtue is absolutely self-sufficient; the good man needs no help from circumstances, neither sickness nor adversity can harm him; he is a king, a god among men.

Marcus Aurelius

#3. We become either agents of God's healing and liberating grace or carriers of the sickness of the world.

M. Robert Mulholland Jr.

#4. An exclusive person hates ugliness, discomfort, enemies, sickness, poverty, ignorance. He finally concludes that there is no God and give himself over to abandonment.

Michio Kushi

#5. How am I? If we grumble at sickness, God won't grant us death,' replied Platon, and at once resumed the story he had begun.

Leo Tolstoy

#6. What's wrong with us isn't a rap sheet of bad deeds, but a damaged heart, a soul-sickness, that plunges us into fearful self-protection, alienation from God and others.

Frederica Mathewes-Green

#7. God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

John Donne

#8. Sleep is a daily reminder from God that we are not God. Once a day God sends us to bed like patients with a sickness. The sickness is a chronic tendency to think we are in control and that our work is indispensable. To cure us of this disease God turns us into helpless sacks of sand once a day.

John Piper

#9. Affliction shows the power of Christ's blood, when it gives peace in an hour of trouble, when it can make happy in sickness, poverty, persecution and death. Do not be surprised if you suffer, but glorify God.

Robert Murray M'Cheyne

#10. That is the returning to God which in reality is never concluded on earth but yet leaves behind in the soul a divine home sickness, which never again ceases.

Max Muller

#11. If sickness brought glory God, Jesus would have spread disease, not healed it.

D.R. Silva

#12. Genuine faith comes forth from the iron smelter of affliction.

Robin Bertram

#13. I DECLARE God is going before me making crooked places straight. He has already lined up the right people, the right opportunities and solutions to problems I haven't had. No person, no sickness, no disappointment, can stop His plan. What he promised will come to pass.

Joel Osteen

#14. What you do with your eyes in some cases is a matter of life and death. To look at focus on the sickness brings death. To look at focus on God's Word brings life.

Gloria Copeland

#15. Sickness is deep within the soul of our society - and that has always been God's exclusive territory.

Billy Graham

#16. Sickness and sin still stalk our planet. But here is the difference: neither sin nor sickness will have dominion over God's people.

Max Lucado

#17. God sometimes afflicts with infirmity of body. Sickness takes away the comfort of life, and makes one in deaths oft.

Thomas Watson

#18. I want Thy plan, O God, for my life. May I be happy and contented whether in the homeland or on the foreign field; whether married or alone, in happiness or sorrow, health or sickness, prosperity or adversity
I want Thy plan, O God, for my life. I want it; oh, I want it.

Oswald J. Smith

#19. There is never a sickness Jesus cannot heal and never a disease Jesus cannot cure. To God's power, nothing is impossible!

T. B. Joshua

#20. Sickness may be the solemn occasion of God's intervention in a person's life.

Paul Tournier

#21. When I was thirty years old and a half, God sent me a bodily sickness, in which I lay three days and three nights; and on the fourth night I took all my rites of Holy Church, and weened not to have lived till day.

Julian Of Norwich

#22. My appeal to the rich is, Deal liberally with your poor brethren, and use your means to advance the cause of God. The worthy poor, who are made poor by misfortune and sickness, deserve your especial care and help.

Ellen G. White

#23. When you die, you graduate. I don't worry about death. Sickness teaches there is joy in everything. Take joy in your sickness because a lot of times God is telling you: 'You may not know it, but you're more blessed than you realized.'

Tony Snow

#24. God has prescribed the remedy for the spiritual sickness of the human race. The solution is personal faith and commitment to Jesus Christ ... if we deliberately refuse it, we must suffer the horrible consequences.

Billy Graham

#25. Health is a good thing; but sickness is far better, if it leads us to God.

J.C. Ryle

#26. When God gets us alone through suffering, heartbreak, temptation, disappointment, sickness, or by thwarted friendship - when He gets us absolutely alone, and we are totally speechless, unable to ask even one question, then He begins to teach us.

Oswald Chambers

#27. Thank you God, for joy and good health, sadness and sickness, and the happiness, prosperity, and contentment you have given me. I love you!

Haresh Buxani

#28. Jesus, in His earth walk, was the will of God in action. If you want to know what God thinks about sickness - look at Jesus! He went about healing the sick!

Kenneth E. Hagin

#29. Just a simple prayer today, for those who are sick or going through darkness of any kind. Dear God, we ask that you place your healing hands on the shoulders of our friends and loved ones, who are suffering and relieve them of these hardships, in Jesus name. Amen.

Ron Baratono

#30. EXODUS 23:25: Serve the Lord and healing will be yours. "So you shall serve the Lord your God, and He will bless your bread and your water. And I will take sickness away from the midst of you

Anonymous

#31. Paradoxical as it may seem, God means not only to make us good, but to make us also happy, by sickness, disaster and disappointment.

C. A. Bartol

#32. To praise God is to express our acceptance of something that God is permitting to happen. So to praise God for difficult situations, as sickness or disaster, means literally that we accept its happening, as part of God's plan to reveal His perfect love for us. We

Merlin R. Carothers

#33. Visit those who are sick, or who are in trouble, especially those whom God has made needy by age, or by other sickness, as the feeble, the blind, and the lame who are in poverty. These you shall relieve with your goods after your power and after their need, for thus biddeth the Gospel.

John Wycliffe

#34. Everything that is bad, the falling sickness - God save the mark - or the like, should be at its worst at the full moon. I suppose because it is the leader of the stars.

Lady Gregory

#35. In sickness we ought to ask God to give us patience, because it often happens, that when a man gets well, he not only does not do the good he proposed to do when he was sick, but he multiplies his sins and his ingratitude.

Philip Neri

#36. You are not subject to the systems or structures of this world, you belong to the kingdom of God, the kingdom of Glory, Prosperity, Beauty and Honor- where sickness is foreign.

Moroaswi Tumiso Victor

#37. The Bible attitude is not that God sends sickness or that sickness is of the devil, but that sickness is a fact usable by both God and the devil.

Oswald Chambers

#38. When we struggle, as so many do, in grinding poverty, or when our enemies prevail against us, or when sickness is not healed, the enemy of our souls can send his evil message that there is no God or that if He exists He does not care about us.

Henry B. Eyring

#39. God will call; they won't answer. Stubbornness of the heart is a terminal sickness. There is no solution for that condition apart from repentance and God's work of grace to break the heart.

James MacDonald

#40. God is glorified through healing and deliverance, not through sickness and suffering.

Kenneth E. Hagin

#41. When I saw for the first time by the Word of God that sickness was not the Will of God, everything in my nature rose up to defeat the will of the devil.

John G. Lake

#42. God can cure any illness.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#43. I am a child of God, and therefore I do not inherit sickness.

Myrtle Fillmore

#44. It's not about success and failure. It's not about good days and bad days. It's not about wealth or poverty. It's not about health or sickness. It's not even about life or death. It's about glorifying God in whatever circumstance you find yourself in.

Mark Batterson

#45. Every negative has a positive." Take my sickness, for example. Being sick is not good, but through this, I have received a lot of blessings in different forms. Because of this, I am able to share everything that God has done for me.

Kcat Yarza

#46. Sickness, sin, and death, being inharmonious, do not originate in God nor belong to His government.

Mary Baker Eddy

#47. Charles H. Spurgeon, in his wry way, once declared, "I daresay the greatest earthly blessing that God can give to any of us is health, with the exception of sickness."[25]

David Jeremiah

#48. Sickness has frequently been of more use to the saints of God than health has.

Charles Spurgeon

#49. If a person believes in the power of sickness more than the power of God, it will be hard for him to receive God's healing.

Paul Silway

#50. So if God gave you the disease to make you humble, then it is pointless for me to pray for you since I would be going against God's will, right?

Paul Silway

#51. There will be no sickness for the saint of God ... If your body belongs to God, it does not and cannot belong to sickness.

Benny Hinn

#52. There are seminars that teach us how to cope with depression, sickness and relationship break down. But God wants us to overcome.

Joseph Prince

#53. Yes, sin, sickness and disease, spiritual death, poverty and everything else that's of the devil once ruled us. But now, bless God, we rule them - for this is the Day of Dominion!

Kenneth E. Hagin

#54. In a sense sickness is a place, more instructive than a long trip to Europe, and it's always a place where there's no company, where nobody can follow. Sickness before death is a very appropriate thing and I think those who don't have it miss one of God's mercies,

Flannery O'Connor

#55. I promise to love and cherish you, to honor and sustain you, in sickness and in health, in poverty and in wealth,in the bad that may darken our days, in the good that may light our way. Tirzah, beloved, I promise to be true to you in all things until I die. And even beyond that, God willing

Francine Rivers

#56. We cannot know healing without knowing sickness. We cannot know peace without knowing anxiety. We cannot know light without experiencing darkness. And we cannot believe in the redeeming work of God without seeing the brokenness he is at work in.

Katie Blackburn

#57. Only when we are able to free the oppressed and heal those suffering from the curse of sickness can we really preach Christ's basic message: The Kingdom of God is at hand and the kingdom of Satan is being destroyed.

Francis S. MacNutt

#58. When you come to a dark valley, a difficult season or a sickness, don't worry about it, God will give you the grace and strength you need.

Joel Osteen

#59. God did not create you for sorrow and sickness

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