Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape. Jun 15, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Contrary to what we may have been taught to think, unnecessary and unchosen suffering wounds us but need not scar us for life. It does mark us. What we allow the mark of our suffering to become is in our own hands. Jun 15, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
It is that we are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never no helplessly unhappy as when we have lost our loved object of its love. Jun 15, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Perhaps watching someone you love suffer can teach you even more than suffering yourself can. Jun 15, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The whole image is that eternal suffering awaits anyone who questions God's infinite love. That's the message we're brought up with, isn't it? Believe or die! Thank you, forgiving Lord, for all those options. Jun 15, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love. Jun 14, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
If pain must come, may it come quickly. Because I have a life to live, and I need to live it in the best way possible. If he has to make a choice, may he make it now. Then I will either wait for him or forget him. Jun 14, 2024 - Fabian Biese>