In the Christian faith, God really puts suffering front and center. He doesn't get squeamish about it.

Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.

Sometimes God allows what he hates to accomplish what he loves.

Jesus went without comfort so that you might have it. He postponed joy so that you might share in it. He willingly chose isolation so that you might never be alone in your hurt and sorrow. He had no real fellowship so that fellowship might be yours, this moment. This alone is enough cause for great gratitude!

The prayer of faith is a prayer of trust. The very essence of faith is trust.

It is one thing to believe in God; it is quite another to believe God.