Quotes on Illness & Weakness
Christian quotes on Illness & Weakness — with author, dates and source, from two millennia of Christian thought.
It is better to be a patient of Christ than a doctor of theology.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Inner dignity remains, even when performance capacity and social role decline.
Anselm Grün
He has chosen not to heal me, but to hold me. The more intense the pain, the closer His embrace.
Joni Eareckson Tada
Having no arms and legs isn't as bad as having no hope!
Nick Vujicic
Fits of depression come over the most of us. Usually cheerful as we may be, we must at intervals be cast down. The strong are not always vigorous, the wise not always ready, the brave not always courageous, and the joyous not always happy.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I am certain that I never did grow in grace one-half so much anywhere as I have upon the bed of pain.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I am so weak. I can’t read my Bible. I can’t even pray. I can only lie still in God’s arms like a little child and trust.
Hudson Taylor
The bow cannot be always bent without fear of breaking. Repose is as needful to the mind as sleep to the body… Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Trying to do the Lord’s work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.
Corrie ten Boom
We may easily be too big for God to use, but never too small.
D.L. Moody
When I cannot read, when I cannot think, when I cannot even pray, I can trust.
Hudson Taylor
We are like blocks of stone out of which the Sculptor carves the form of a true human. The blows of His chisel that hurt us so much are also what make us perfect.
C.S. Lewis
I know, perhaps as well as anyone, what depression means, and what it is to feel myself sinking lower and lower. Yet at the worst, when I reach the lowest depths, I have an inward peace which no pain or depression can in the least disturb. Trusting in Jesus Christ my Savior, there is still a blessed quietness in the deep caverns of my soul, though upon the surface, a rough tempest may be raging, and there may be little apparent calm.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed.
Blaise Pascal
Never once did Jesus scan the room for the best example of holy living and send that person out to tell others about him. He always sent stumblers and sinners. I find that comforting.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
Groanings which cannot be uttered are often prayers which cannot be refused.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Only Jesus says, “I have come for the weak. I have come for those who admit they are weak. I will save them not by what they do but through what I do.
Tim Keller
The weakness of the hand will not diminish the strength of the medicine.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
A vigorous draft of sea air or a good walk in the wind will not fill the soul with grace, but it will fill the body with oxygen, which is the next best thing.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
Do not despair, but come to the Lord with all your open wounds, your pain and sickness. He alone can heal, and he delights to do it. It is our Lord's office to bind up broken hearts.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
We have a great high priest for small flickers of faith with great weaknesses.
Paul Deitenbeck
What matters is not losing the illness through faith, but standing firm within the illness through faith.
Anselm Grün
As a camel kneels before its master so he can take the burden off at the end of the day, so kneel down every evening and let the Master take your burden off you.
Corrie ten Boom
Jesus Christ has comfort for all your weariness and light for your darkest hours.
Friedrich von Bodelschwingh
The weaknesses of the saints comfort us more than their virtues.
Martin Luther
The light must be broken in people who are themselves broken, so that it does not blind but shines.
Magnus Malm
We have a Father who rises to his best when we are at our end. A Father whose grace is strongest when our devotion is weakest.
Max Lucado
When God puts his own into the furnace, his eye is on the clock and his hand is on the thermostat.
Warren Wiersbe
One son God hath without sin, but none without sorrow.
John Trapp
Sometimes the clearest evidence that God has not deserted you is not that you are successfully past your trial but that you are still on your feet in the middle of it.
Dale Ralph Davis
There are rare and wonderful species of joy that flourish only in the rainy atmosphere of suffering.
John Piper
Spirituality isn't about being finished and perfect; spirituality is about trusting God in our unfinishedness.
Mike Yaconelli
Not only do the weak need the strong, but the strong cannot exist without the weak. The elimination of the weak is the death of the community.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Sometimes the fact that there is nothing about you that makes you the right person to do something is exactly what God is looking for.
Nadia Bolz-Weber
You’re blessed when you’re at the end of your rope. With less of you there is more of God and his rule.
Eugene Peterson
The great challenge is living your wounds through instead of thinking them through. It is better to cry than to worry, better to feel your wounds deeply than to understand them, better to let them enter into your silence than to talk about them.
Henri Nouwen
It's not so much about being able to handle your weaknesses, but much more about being able to go to HIM with your weaknesses.
Josef Villiger
The Lord does not measure out our afflictions according to our faults, but according to our strength, and looks not what we have deserved, but what we are able to bear.
George Downame
If this isn’t your experience of prayer—if for you prayer is closer to boredom, distraction, and scary emotions coming to the surface of your heart—please don’t shame yourself or self-flagellate; that won’t help. Just keep praying.
John Mark Comer
God allows himself to be pushed out of the world onto the cross; God is powerless and weak in the world and precisely and only in this way is he with us and helps us.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
People quoted here
Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Anselm Grün, Joni Eareckson Tada, Nick Vujicic, Hudson Taylor, Corrie ten Boom, D.L. Moody, C.S. Lewis, Blaise Pascal, Nadia Bolz-Weber, Tim Keller, Paul Deitenbeck
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