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“how do I get out of this labyrinth of suffering ?”

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“It is not suffering that is precious, but the concentric pearlescence with which we contain it. The raw grit of anguish will never be in short supply. There is enough of it in the happiest life to serve these instructive purposes, and there always will be. We are more sympathetic to Holocaust survivors than to malcontent children of privilege, but we all have our darkness, and the trick is making something exalted of it.”

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“God uses his suffering servants to preach the aroma of the knowledge of him everywhere.”

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“They may not look like it, but every single one of them is shut up in their own rooms. Their fears, their insecurities, their joys and hopes and dreams … all shut up in there. They only let you see what they’re comfortable with you seeing, you know... Suffering hits everyone in its own way.”

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Book:The Curious Case of Doctor Maundy

Source: The Curious Case of Doctor Maundy

“Hope is a corpse. A dead thing, watching you suffer with black empty eyes. Any comfort it might have offered, long since gone to the grave.”

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Book:Remains

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“... if suffering warrants special moral concern, the truth is that we should never forget about its existence. For even if we had abolished suffering throughout the living world, there would still be a risk that it might reemerge, and this risk would always be worth reducing.”

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Book:Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications

Source: Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications

“If pain and injustice and undeserved misery are part of the package, and God knows they are, then surely the life of Christ is God's own answer to Ecclesiasticus! Redeem the suffering. Embrace it. Make it mean something.”

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Book:Children of God

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“Man's main concern is not to gain pleasure or to avoid pain but rather to see a meaning in his life. That is why man is even ready to suffer, on the condition, to be sure, that his suffering has a meaning.”

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Book:Man's Search for Meaning

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“But while there were times when I rejoiced in the idea that my sufferings were to be endless, I could not bear them to be without meaning. Now I find hidden somewhere away in my nature something that tells me that nothing in the whole world is meaningless, suffering least of all. That something hidden away in my nature, like a treasure in a field, Is Humility.”

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Book:De Profundis

Source: De Profundis

“Men have true freedom only if they are indifferent to the past and the future. As soon as they regret or expect, there’s attachment and suffering.”

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Author:Maxime Lagacé

“Disaster on an unfathomable scale is always taking place on Earth. Countless instances of extreme suffering are occurring in this moment — right now. Yet because this suffering is so normal and ordinary, simply occurring every day, distributed rather evenly over time and space, it seems less evocative and urgent than the more unusual, more localized disasters, such as school shootings and earthquakes. Almost all the suffering that occurs on Earth can be considered baseline horror, which allows us to ignore it. We simply do not feel the ever-present emergency that surrounds us.”

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Book:Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications

Source: Suffering-Focused Ethics: Defense and Implications