#erin

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind. ↗

— Aristotle

#bears #beautiful #becomes #calamities #cheerfulness

It's great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else. ↗

— Dido Armstrong

#disappear #else #go #grab #great

The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future. ↗

— Roone Arledge

#be true #covering #current #difference #future

Oh, with my pathetic, earthly, Euclidean mind, I know only that there is suffering, that none are to blame, that all things follow simply and directly from one another, that everything flows and finds its level - but that is all just Euclidean gibberish, of course I know that, and of course I cannot consent to live by it! What do I care that none are to blame and that I know it - I need retribution, otherwise I will destroy myself. And retribution not somewhere and sometime in infinity, but here and now, on earth, so that I see it myself. I have believed, and I want to see for myself, and if I am dead by that time, let them resurrect me, because it will be too unfair if it all takes place without me. Is it possible that I've suffered so that I, together with my evil deeds and sufferings, should be manure for someone's future harmony? I want to see with my own eyes the hind lie down with the lion, and the murdered man rise up and embrace his murderer. I want to be there when everyone suddenly finds out what it was all for. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#faith #suffering #faith

Ann: How does God’s character fit into things that seem totally against his character? ↗

— K. Howard Joslin

#gods-goodness #suffering #trials #faith

Breaking a sweat through our difficulties minimized the likelihood of a crippling injury to our faith. ↗

— K. Howard Joslin

#questions #suffering #trials #faith

I think they are a better race than humans ever were. ↗

— Angelo Tsanatelis

#cyberpunk #cyborg #genetic-engineering #science-fiction #intelligence

Senior pastors cannot be those who think they can do everything but are willing to let a few people help them. Rather, they are those who know they can’t do everything, don’t want to do everything, and are not willing to do everything; they welcome others to come along-side with their gifts in order to form a powerful team for Christ. ↗

— Sue Mallory

#gifts #leaders #leadership #pastors #leadership

Any government has as much of a duty to avoid war as a ship's captain has to avoid a shipwreck." [On Water] ↗

— Guy de Maupassant

#government #leadership #peace #responsibility #shipwreck

Whether you like it or not, you are committed to the human endeavor. I cannot ally myself with such a purely negative goal as avoidance of suffering. Suffering is a chance you take by the fact of being alive. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#persistence #suffering #life