25 Quotes for the Hurting

It’s been a long time since we have done a compilation of quotes. And since we have so many in our lives going through difficult times, I thought I would share a list of quotes and verses to provide some strength and encouragement.

As usual, these are taken from a variety of sources, and none are original with me.

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“Surely there is a future; and your hope will not be cut off” (Psalm 61:8).

“Our Lord did not ask us to give up the things of earth, but to exchange them for better things” (Fulton Sheen).

“To hurt is as human as to breathe” (J.K. Rowling).

“Be strong! Be courageous! Do not be afraid of them! For the Lord your God will be with you. He will neither fail you nor forsake you” (Deuteronomy 31:6).

“Do not be afraid to suffer . . . .It is from being shaken apart and not being destroyed that we becomes strong and courageous” (Laura Lewis Lanier).

“Our problems are opportunities to discover God’s solutions” (Unknown).

“The world is full of suffering, it is also full of overcoming it” (Helen Keller).

“You may never know that JESUS is all you need, until JESUS is all you have” (Corrie Ten Boom).

“I walked a mile with Pleasure
She chattered all the way;
But left me none the wiser
For all she had to say.

I walked a mile with Sorrow
And ne’er a word said she;
But oh, the things I learned from her
When Sorrow walked with me.” (Robert Browning Hamilton)

“I sought the Lord, and he answered me, and delivered me from all my fears” (Psalm 34:4).

“Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than those who are most content” (Bob Dylan).

“God will not look you over for medals, degrees, or diplomas, but for scars” (Elbert Hubbard).

“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but – I hope – into a better shape” (Charles Dickens).

“If any of you is lacking in wisdom, ask God, who gives to all generously and ungrudgingly, and it will be given you” (James 1:5).

“I say that trials and tests locate a person. In other words they determine where you are spiritually. They reveal the true condition of your heart. How you react under pressure is how the real you reacts” (John Bevere).

“But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world” (C.S. Lewis).

“Cast all your anxiety on him, because he cares for you” (1 Peter 5:7).

“Tears are the Soul’s baptism of cleansing” (Edwin Leibfreed)

“No man ever grows to a full man’s estate without the ministration of suffering” (Henry Ward Beecher).

“I will lie down and sleep in peace, for you alone, O Lord, make me dwell in safety” (Psalm 4:8).

“It requires more courage to suffer than to die” (Napoleon Bonaparte).

“The more a human creature has tasted of bitter things the more it hungers after the sweet things of life” (Maxim Gorky).

“Do not grieve, for the joy of the Lord is your strength” (Nehemiah 8:10).

“Wisdom comes only through suffering” (Aeschylus).

“When the righteous cry for help, the Lord hears, and rescues them from all their troubles. The Lord is near to the brokenhearted, and saves the crushed in spirit. Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord rescues them from them all” (Psalm 34:17-19).

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My prayer is that these quotes and verses give you strength through this day!