It is our contemporary culture’s tragedy to have lost any sense of suffering as a positive dimension of human existence. Beginning with the premise that life ought to be without pain, we make suffering something to be avoided at all cost. We consider the equation between evil and suffering so self-evident that we make avoiding suffering the equal of fighting evil. No wonder we are the most narcotized generation ever to inhabit the earth, searching for ever more effective addictive patterns to anaesthetize our existence. . Luke Timothy Johnson
Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain
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Aeschylus
Wisdom is not making life any harder than it has to be.
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Marty Rubin
Doesn't it seem that it is always by chance that these things happen, or is it because of the generosity of a shared knowledge of suffering that allows for it?
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David Gianadda
Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.
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Anonymous
But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.
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Hans Christian Andersen
More Quotes By Luke Timothy Johnson
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Any profession of faith…entrusts the mind and heart to a truth that cannot be proven but can be lived.
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Those who are in pain — most of the world’s populations at any given moment — do not do a lot of thinking, speaking, or writing about suffering. All their energy goes into surviving. That is why a lot of what is said and written...
It is our contemporary culture’s tragedy to have lost any sense of suffering as a positive dimension of human existence. Beginning with the premise that life ought to be without pain, we make suffering something to be avoided at all cost. We consider the equation...
