The disappointment has come - not because God desires to hurt you or make you miserable or to demoralize you or ruin your life or keep you from ever knowing happiness. He wants you to be perfect and complete in every aspect, lacking nothing. It's not the easy times that make you more like Jesus, but the hard times.
— Kay Arthur (1933–2025), Bibellehrerin, Bestsellerautorin, Mitgründerin von Precept Ministries International
Related Bible passage: JAS.1.4
Topics: Suffering & the Question of God, Growth & Character
Occasions: For Reflection, Comfort
Kay Arthur
Kay Arthur (1933–2025) war eine US-amerikanische Bibellehrerin, Autorin und Mitgründerin des internationalen Bibelstudienwerks Precept Ministries International in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Bekannt wurde sie vor allem durch die weltweite Verbreitung der induktiven Bibelstudienmethode, zahlreiche Studienbücher sowie ihre Radio- und Fernsehsendungen. Heutigen Bibellesern bietet sie einen systematischen methodischen Ansatz, biblische Texte durch Beobachtung, Auslegung und Anwendung eigenständig zu erschließen.
In our own woundedness, we can become sources of life for others.
Henri Nouwen
Ultimately mourning means facing what wounds us in the presence of One who can heal.
Henri Nouwen
C.S. Lewis
When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.
Henri Nouwen
He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace.
Joni Eareckson Tada
Etty Hillesum
God writes straight even on crooked lines.
Paul Claudel
God lets us walk no path that he himself has not walked, and on which he does not go ahead of us.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer