Job Suffering Quotes

#1. God didn't let Job suffer because he lacked love, but because he did love, in order to bring Job to the point of encountering God face to face, which is humanity's supreme happiness. Job's suffering hollowed out a big space in him so that God and joy could fill it.

Lee Strobel

#2. When Job was prospering, he prayed. When he was suffering, he still prayed.

Timothy Keller

#3. In her memoirs she writes that she left the hospital job because it eventually made her numb to suffering, and it left her no time to write. She neglected

David Brooks

#4. Our job this day is to become part of the answer to the world's immense and protracted suffering rather than continuing our ancient task of being part of the difficulty.

Hugh Prather

#5. The book of Job does not set out to answer the problem of suffering, but to proclaim a God so great that no answer is needed.

Billy Graham

#6. Learning to endure times of disappointment, suffering, and sorrow is part of our on-the-job training. These experiences, while often difficult to bear at the time, are precisely the kinds of experiences that stretch our understanding, build our character, and increase our compassion for others.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#7. Its okay to have a job that fits your passions, we don't have to suffer for money.

Doreen Virtue

#8. We can take suffering to be an opportunity to learn and to grow. But if we are honest, we should remember that this is making the best of a bad job, and that minimising suffering takes priority over optimising its outcome.

Julian Baggini

#9. Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don't make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.

Anne Lamott

#10. No matter how many people you kill, using a machine gun in battle is not a war crime because it does not cause unnecessary suffering; it simply performs its job horrifyingly well.

Sebastian Junger

#11. 83Remember Job, when he cried to his Lord, 'Suffering has truly afflicted me, but you are the Most Merciful of the merciful.' 84We answered him, removed his suffering, and restored his family to him, along with more like them, as an act of grace from Us and a reminder for all who serve Us.

Anonymous

#12. In my job, you expect to suffer. That's why when I go to hell one day, it will be less painful for me than you, because I'm used to suffering.

Arsene Wenger

#13. In response, God appears to Job and compels him to live in mystery, not giving an answer to his suffering but asserting his own wisdom and power. Other

John H. Walton

#14. I do whatever I can to serve peace. My job is the end of suffering.

Byron Katie

#15. Anyway, I must be far from insufferable, since you've done an excellent job of suffering me these last months.

Robert Jordan

#16. The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold. 69 L

Oswald Chambers

#17. The point of the Book of Job is not suffering: where is God When It hurts? The prologue (chapters 1-2) dealt with that issue. The point of the Book of Job is faith: Where is Job when it hurts?

Philip Yancey

#18. When you see people suffering and dying and hungry, this job gives you the ability to do something about it.

Frank R. Wolf

#19. Job understood that he was nothing more than God's invention and so too was his suffering

Johnny Rich

#20. It is really rather foolish to so often feel we have to say something brilliant and enlightening to someone who is suffering. Job makes it clear that simple companionship is what suffering people often crave - not a course in philosophy.

Kathryn Lindskoog

#21. Students are suffering under incredibly high tuitions and high student loan interest rates. They graduate from school, and they're having a very difficult time finding a job. They don't feel as though there are honest leaders who are listening to them, and who will be a part of the solution.

Tulsi Gabbard

#22. Job moans that it is wanton cruelty that suffering people, brutalized or in mourning, should have to relive their horrors in dreams. In fact, why should any of us, in seeking rest, be met with nightmares?

Jennifer Michael Hecht

#23. Nobody wins when the police are sent to look after people suffering from mental health problems; vulnerable people don't get the care they need and deserve, and the police can't get on with the job they are trained to do.

Theresa May

#24. We cannot consent to be judged by someone who has suffered less than ourselves. And since each of us regards himself as an unrecognized Job ...

Emil Cioran

#25. It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.

Bill Pascrell

#26. Anything you say from your heart to God is a prayer. But "why" is rarely a useful question. When Job keeps asking God why he has had such loss and suffering, God says, "You wouldn't understand." I always want to know why, and I almost never have a good answer.

Anne Lamott

#27. Your job, with all that mental training and suffering, is just to push your line of breaking so far your opponent can't find it.

Greg Jackson

#28. We're each given one life, and it's our job to make it useful, beautiful, and fulfilling. There is no value in suffering through it, doing something we hate. There's no prize at the end for that kind of endurance. Just a spent life.

Sarah Jio

#29. Is there so much suffering, so much death? I was told that God's ways are incomprehensible, and that in many cases, a Job-like humility

James Wood

#30. There is unspeakable yet entirely preventable suffering in this world. The job of journalists and writers engaged with global issues is to articulate the unspeakable and give voice to solutions.
K. Lee Lerner

K. Lee Lerner