“Pain is hard to bear," he cried,
"But with patience, day by day,
Even this shall pass away.”
Theodore Tilton (1835–1907) American newspaper editor
All Things shall pass away, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Source: On the Mystical Body of Christ, p.423
Context: Christ’s whole body groans in pain. Until the end of the world, when pain will pass away, this man groans and cries to God. And each one of us has part in the cry of that whole body. Thou didst cry out in thy day, and thy days have passed away; another took thy place and cried out in his day. Thou here, he there, and another there. The body of Christ ceases not to cry out all the day, one member replacing the other whose voice is hushed. Thus there is but one man who reaches unto the end of time, and those that cry are always His members.
“Pain is hard to bear," he cried,
"But with patience, day by day,
Even this shall pass away.”
Theodore Tilton (1835–1907) American newspaper editor
All Things shall pass away, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“I feel like, like pudding," Iggy groaned. "Pudding with nerve endings. Pudding in great pain.”
James Patterson (1947) American author
Source: The Angel Experiment
Russell Kirk (1918–1994) American political theorist and writer
Libertarians: Chirping Sectaries (1981)
Nikos Kazantzakis book The Saviors of God
The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: Pain is not the only essence of our God, nor is hope in a future life or a life on this earth, neither joy nor victory. Every religion that holds up to worship one of these primordial aspects of God narrows our hearts and our minds.
The essence of our God is STRUGGLE. Pain, joy, and hope unfold and labor within this struggle, world without end.
“I cried because I had no shoes until I met a man who had no feet”
Helen Keller (1880–1968) American author and political activist
Nikolai Bukharin (1888–1938) Soviet politician
How It All Began : The Prison Novel, one of Bukharin's final works while in prison, as translated by George Shriver, (1998), Ch.8