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- “Pain and suffering have come into your life, but remember pain, sorrow, suffering are but the kiss of Jesus — a sign that you have come so close to Him that He can kiss you.”
- And the Lord said to me, “My child, you please Me most by suffering. In your physical as well as your mental sufferings, My daughter, do not seek sympathy from creatures.
- “When I shrink from suffering, Jesus reproves me and tells me that He did not refuse to suffer. Then I say ‘Jesus, Your will and not mine’. At last I am convinced that only God can make me happy, and in Him I have placed all my hope…”
- “Those who pray and suffer, leaving action for others, will not shine here on earth; but what a radiant crown they will wear in the kingdom of life!
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Tim Keller has written one of the years most important books (a line I seem to recite annually). His newest Walking with God through Pain and Suffering is a wise, Christ-centered, comforting book for readers who hurt, and offers counsel to readers who anticipate future suffering. Its a book for everyone, and it releases tomorrow from Dutton.
To mark its arrival, I pulled my favorite quotes from the book and narrowed the list down to my top 20. No matter what precautions we take, no matter how well we have put together a good life, no matter how hard we have worked to be healthy, wealthy, comfortable with friends and family, and successful with our career something will inevitably ruin...
Some suffering is given in order to chastise and correct a person for wrongful patterns of life (as in the case of Jonah imperiled by the storm), some suffering is given not to correct past wrongs but to prevent future ones (as in the case of Joseph sold into slavery), and some suffering has no purpose other than to lead a person to love God more a...
Nov 14, 2018 · His last thoughts were of his people in Dublin : “Alas, you poor, foolish people, what will you do now? Who will take care of you in your trouble? Who will help you?” He died on 14 November 1180. The Saint is described as tall and graceful in figure.
Nov 2, 2016 · I. “The more we are afflicted in this world, the greater is our assurance in the next; the more sorrow in the present, the greater will be our joy in the future.” – St. Isidore of Seville. II. “Death is more than falling blindly into the arms of God.” – St. Maria Maravillas de Jesus. III. “After my death, I will let fall a shower of roses.
It is a wonderful mark of God’s Providence that the memory of St. Laurence O’Toole is still alive today nearly 900 years later, and that significant records of his life were gathered and protected over the centuries. His story is beautifully told by the late Fr. Desmond Forristal.
Aug 27, 2018 · Death makes a statement about each of us: you are not too important to die. . . . [S]o long as death remains someone else’s problem, Jesus will remain someone else’s Savior. (54, 55) Death is not the natural end to a merely biological life. Death is an intrusion into the perfect world of the Creator designed by that same Creator to make a ...
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Dec 21, 2015 · Death is the last and best physician, which cures all diseases and sins - the aching head and the unbelieving heart. Sin was the midwife which brought death into the world; and death shall be the grave to bury sin! O the privilege of a believer!
