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Let the Winds Blow

We cannot be established except by suffering. It is of no use our hoping that we shall be well-rooted if no March winds have passed over us. The young ...


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Preach to the Suffering

Preach to the suffering, and you will never lack a congregation. There is a broken heart in every pew.


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The Democracy of Suffering

The kingdom of suffering is a democracy, and we all stand in it or alongside it with nothing but our naked humanity.


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Taking Advantage of the Floor

When life knocks you to your knees--well, that's the best position in which to pray, isn't it?


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Suffering Is a Certainty

We must be made perfect by sufferings. If we do not meet them in our younger days, we shall certainly have them in the decline of life.


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Sun Alone Creates a Desert

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world.


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Tribulation's Lessons

As soon as we know our dependence, our own nothingness, we begin, by dying, to live. In this is our only hope: that knowing our nothingness, we come to ...


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When God Says No

A young pastor friend has ... been through the trial of his life. When I saw him recently, he asked me, "What do you do when God doesn't say ...


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God's Richest Gifts

Pain is pain and sorrow is sorrow. It hurts. It limits. It impoverishes. It isolates. It restrains. It works devastation deep within the personality. ...


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Realistic Happiness

Who could speak more realistically about the illusion of a yuppie value system than Alexander Solzhenitsyn, who suffered deprivation of all that money ...


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