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In The Problem of Pain, C.S.
Mental pain is less dramatic than physical pain, but it is more common and also more hard to bear. The frequent attempt to conceal mental pain increases the burden: it is easier to say ‘My tooth is aching’ than to say ‘My heart is broken.’
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God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
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Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our consciences, but shouts in our pains. It is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.
Affliction is often that thing which prepares an ordinary person for some sort of an extraordinary destiny.
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