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You would like to know how I behave when I am experiencing pain, not writing books about it. You need not guess, for I will tell you; I am a great cow...more

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It is for people we care nothing about that we demand happiness on any terms: with our friends, our lovers, our children we are exacting and would rat...more

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[But] we inherit a whole system of desires which do not necessarily contribute God's will but which, after centuries of usurped autonomy steadfastly i...more

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Some modern theologians have, quite rightly, protested against an excessively moralistic interpretation of Christianity. The Holiness of God is someth...more

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Do we suppose that they can do Him any good or fear, like the chorus in MIlton, that human irreverence can bring about. His glory's diminution? A man ...more

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The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word ...more

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It is mere nonsense to put pain among the discoveries of science. Lay down this book and reflect for five minutes on the fact that all the great relig...more

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The Christian doctrine of suffering explains, I believe, a very curious fact about the world we live in. The settled happiness and security which we a...more

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If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often rebuked us and...more

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The first condition, then, of what is called a selfish love among men is lacking with God. He has no natural necessities, no passion, to compete with ...more

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The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.

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Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increas...more

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When Christianity says that God loves man it means that God LOVES man: not that He has some 'disinterested'; because really indifferent, concern for o...more

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If pain sometimes shatters the creature's false self sufficiency, yet in supreme Trial or Sacrifice' it teaches him the self-sufficiency which really ...more

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The causes of this distribution I do not know; but from our present point of view it ought to be clear that the real problem is not why some humble pi...more