All believers in Christ, the Scripture teaches, will suffer-all of us. You will be glorified, Paul says, if you suffer with him. The problem with too many of us is not that we don't suffer, but that we assume that only Third World Christians or heroic missionaries are suffering. My boys didn't know that they were suffering in Russia; they would feel it as suffering now. Russell D. Moore
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  1. Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain - Aeschylus

  2. Wisdom is not making life any harder than it has to be. - Marty Rubin

  3. Doesn't it seem that it is always by chance that these things happen, or is it because of the generosity of a shared knowledge of suffering that allows for it? - David Gianadda

  4. Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us. - Anonymous

  5. But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more. - Hans Christian Andersen

More Quotes By Russell D. Moore
  1. When my sons arrived in the family, their legal status was not ambiguous at all. They were our kids. But their wants and affections were still atrophied by a year in the orphanage. They didn't know that flies on their faces were bad. <span style="margin:15px;...

  2. We don't persuade our neighbors by mimicking their angry power-protests. We persuade them by holding fast to the gospel, by explaining our increasingly odd view of marriage, and by serving the world and our neighbors around us, as our Lord does, with a towel and...

  3. Too often, our concept of pastors and church leaders reinforces rather than obliterates the sad state of family life in our current context.

  4. Sexuality isn’t ancillary to Christianity, in the way some other cultural or political issues are. Marriage and sex point, the Bible says, to a picture of the gospel itself, the union of Christ and his church. This is why the Bible spends so much time,...

  5. The root of impatience in discipline is really the same as that of overindulgence. In both instances, parents want to make up for lost time, to speed up a process that takes time.

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