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The Problem of Pain

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“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.”

— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com

Tagged: Metal pain, Pain, dramatic, physical pain, Hiding

“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.”

— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com

Tagged: Pain, broken, Psychology, mental pain

“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.”

— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com

Tagged: mental pain, physical pain

“God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.”

— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com

“If He who in Himself can lack nothing chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed.”

— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com

“What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like, "What does it matter so long as they are contented?" We want, in fact, not so much a Father in Heaven as a grandfather in heaven — a senile benevolence who, as they say, "liked to see young people enjoying themselv…”

— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com

“I call this Divine humility because it is a poor thing to strike our colours to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing to come to Him as a last resort, to offer up "our own" when it is no longer worth keeping. If God were proud He would hardly have us on such terms: but He is not pro…”

— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com

“God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love.”

— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com

“Even atheists rebel and express, like Hardy and Housman, their rage against God although (or because) He does not, on their view, exist...”

— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com

“In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are you asking God to do? To wipe out their past sins and, at all costs, to give them a fresh start, smoothing every difficulty and offering every miraculous help? But He has done so, on Calvary. T…”

— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com

“Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment.”

— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com

“Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself.”

— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com

“Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal.”

— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com

“Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness.”

— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com

“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.’”

— C. S. Lewis, amazon.com

Tagged: Pain, Heartbroken, mental pain, physical pain, Depression