Suffering is part of the divine idea.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Suffering is the positive element in this world, indeed it is the only link between this world and the positive.
Suffering is the substance of life and the root of personality, for it is only suffering that makes us persons.
We all suffer. It's part of life. The blessing is - while evil exists, Divinity does, too, and it is stronger.
We create our own unhappiness. The purpose of suffering is to help us understand we are the ones who cause it.
The word 'suffering' is not in my vocabulary.
Suffering is a corrective to point out a lesson which by other means we have failed to grasp, and never can it be eradicated until that lesson is learnt.
There's nothing like suffering to remind us how not in control we actually are, how little power we ultimately have, and how much we ultimately need God.
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
The Why's of suffering keep us shrouded in a seemingly bottomless void of abstraction where God is reduced to a finite ethical agent, a limited psychological personality, whose purposes measure on the same scale as ours.
The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?