I don't consider myself to be someone who has experienced a lot of suffering in my lifetime, so I'm not sure that I have the right to speak about the good that can come from suffering. But, we got into a discussion of pain and sorrow in my Old Testament class, and my prof presented some thought-provoking quotes. He was going quickly, so I didn't catch references. But, hey, this is my blog; it doesn't have to conform to MLA format!
"If you call God good without suffering, then your announcement of His glory is without power."
"We fear somber; we seem to hold sorrow in low-esteem...failing to see that doubt and despair are the dark soil that is necessary to sow confidence and joy."
And, a lighter one- though no less true or intriguing:
"Real doubts are like spoiled children- if you ignore them, they'll hit you."
Hmmm...
1 comment:
I like these quotes. Reminds me of the observation that you cannot have light without shadow. We don't know postive without negative or good without bad. Like the quote you have about real doubts, trying to stuff or ignore the dark side of things only guarantees that eventually we will be caught by it.
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