“'The long-suffering man abounds in understanding' (Prov. 14:29), because he endures everything to the end and, while awaiting that end, patiently bears his distress. The end, as St. Paul says, is everlasting life (cf. Rom. 6:22). 'And this is eternal life, that they might know You the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom You have sent' (Jn. 17:3).” KnowsMenLongEndsMightChristianSufferingJesusUnderstandingChristBearsEternalJesus ChristEndureOrthodoxDistressEverlastingEternal LifeOrthodox ChristianCfsTrue GodLong SufferingEverlasting Life Author:Maximus the Confessor
“In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us.” FirstsEndsCircumstancesPleaseAdversityEaseDistressBent Author:Jonathan Swift
“But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to satisfy are not immutable; they can be weakened and exterminated. Consider, for example, that Christian distress of mind that comes from sighing over ones inner depravity and care for ones salvation - all concepts originating in nothing but errors of reason and deserving, not satisfaction, but obliteration.” NeedsMindEndsReasonPhilosophyCareChristianChristianityExampleConceptsSalvationErrorsSatisfactionSatisfiedDistressDeservingDepravity Book:Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits Source: Nietzsche: Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
“Blanket compassion will shift the distribution decisively towards the manipulative end of the spectrum, and may paradoxically decrease the compassion with which the genuinely despairing are treated: for they are apt to get lost in the great mass of pseudo-distress and manipulation, and often their conduct draws less attention precisely because it is less attention-seeking.” MayEndsLostAttentionCompassionMassDrawsSeekingTreatedManipulationDistressDistributionSpectrumBlanketDecreasePseudoManipulativeAttention Seeking Author:Anthony Daniels