We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of 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 problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
The reward of suffering is experience.
For the life of the believer, one thing is beautifully and abundantly true: God's chief concern in your suffering is to be with you and be Himself for you. And in the end, what we discover is that this really is enough.
His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.
Indeed, there is nothing like suffering to remind us how much we need God. What good news that His purpose and plan for our lives moves in a different direction from ours!
Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.
We cannot live, suffer or die for somebody else, for suffering is too precious to be shared.