When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Any man today who returns from work, sinks into a chair, and calls for his pipe is a man with an appetite for danger.
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
In the Christian faith, God really puts suffering front and center. He doesn't get squeamish about it.
I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back.
Pity? You don't want to be pitied because you're a cripple in a wheelchair? Stay in your house!
He used to sit on my lap. I was sort of ambivalent about that. He was surviving any way he could.
It is an easy thing for one whose foot is on the outside of calamity to give advice and to rebuke the sufferer.
Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.
When I go, God's going to have to give up his favourite chair.
I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.