Quotes on Chronic Pain

The weaker we feel, the harder we lean. And the harder we lean, the stronger we grow spiritually, even while our bodies waste away.

Sometimes I think illness sits inside every woman, waiting for the right moment to bloom. I have known so many sick women all my life. Women with chronic pain, with ever-gestating diseases. Women with conditions. Men, sure, they have bone snaps, they have backaches, they have a surgery or two, yank out a tonsil, insert a shiny plastic hip. Women get consumed.

What I mean is sometimes, for an artist, chronic pain can be a gift.

God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives.