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“...any movement away from the presence of God is movement in the wrong direction. My sorrow, my suffering, my sin - all of it is meant to be an offering to him. All of it belongs at the foot of the cross.”

Book:Two Steps Forward: A Story of Persevering in Hope

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“The emotions, I have observed, are but slightly influenced by arithmetical considerations: the mother, when her sweet lisping little ones have all been taken from her one after another, and she is hanging over her last dead babe, finds small consolation in the fact that the tiny dimpled corpse is but one of a necessary average, and that a thousand other babes brought into the world at the same time are doing well, and are likely to live; and if you stood beside that mother—if you knew her pang and shared it—it is probable you would be equally unable to see a ground of complacency in statistics. Doubtless a complacency resting on that basis is highly rational; but emotion, I fear, is obstinately irrational: it insists on caring for individuals; it absolutely refuses to adopt the quantitative view of human anguish, and to admit that thirteen happy lives are a set-off against twelve miserable lives, which leaves a clear balance on the side of satisfaction.”

Suffering Emotions Statistics Rationality

Book:Scenes of Clerical Life

Source: Scenes of Clerical Life

“What do you know of death? I have asked him. I've lived it, he says.”

Life Death Suffering

Book:The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories

Source: The Djinn Falls in Love & Other Stories

“Athena thinks she is exceptional at suffering, but actually the only thing she is really good at is procrastinating.”

Suffering Procrastination

Book:So Many Olympic Exertions

Source: So Many Olympic Exertions

“The people who are made larger by suffering go on to stage two small rebellions. First, they rebel against their ego ideal. .. down in the valley, they lose interest in their ego ideal”

Suffering Ego Valley

Book:The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life

Source: The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life

“People in the valley have been broken open. They have been reminded that they are not just the parts of themselves that they put on display.”

Suffering Ego Valley

Book:The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life

Source: The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life

“Willy seemed like an inhabitant of some other dimension who could only tenuously communicate with the ordinary world. This would have troubled her less if she had not imagined his other dimension as a place of horror.”

Suffering Horror Iris Murdoch The Nice And The Good Outsider Cut Off

Book:The Nice and the Good

Source: The Nice and the Good

“For a while everything became too terrible, one could scarcely bear to be conscious.”

Suffering Consciousness Terrible Conscious Iris Murdoch Unbearable The Nice And The Good

Book:The Nice and the Good

Source: The Nice and the Good

“It is our action that determines the viability of our dream.”

Dream Motivational Truth Action Success Goals

Book:Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

Source: Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human Experience

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