“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pain: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
“It was not her fault he had liked her. It was not her fault she was cyborg. She would not apologize.”
― Cinder
― Cinder
“If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world to be either redeemed or no further redeemable.”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
“suffering is not good in itself. What is good in any painful experience is, for the sufferer, his submission to the will of God, and, for the spectators, the compassion aroused and the acts of mercy to which it leads.”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
“Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.”
― The Problem of Pain
― The Problem of Pain
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