“Nothing satisfies God but the voluntary sacrifice of love. The pain of Christ gave God no pleasure — only the love that was tested by pain — the love of perfect obedience.”

— Frederick William Robertson

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 401.

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British writer and theologian 1816–1853

Dan Simmons book The Fall of Hyperion

Source: The Fall of Hyperion (1990), Chapter 45 (p. 491)

“If neither love nor pain
Will ever touch thy heart,
Then only God's in thee,
And then in God thou art”

Angelus Silesius (1624–1677) German writer

The Cherubinic Wanderer

“Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime.”

Bette Davis (1908–1989) film and television actress from the United States

“God not only loves the obedient - He enlightens them.”

Henry B. Eyring (1933) American Mormon leader

“Is God a cruel bastard or what, to make love so painful?”

Kage Baker book The Graveyard Game

Source: The Graveyard Game (2001), Chapter 7, “London, 2026” (p. 65)

“I thank God that in the bath of Pain
He purged my love.”

Henrik Ibsen Love's Comedy

Falk, Act III
Love's Comedy (1862)
Context: I thank God that in the bath of Pain
He purged my love. What strong compulsion drew
Me on I knew not, till I saw in you
The treasure I had blindly sought in vain.
I praise Him, who our love has lifted thus
To noble rank by sorrow, — licensed us
To a triumphal progress, bade us sweep
Thro' fen and forest to our castle-keep,
A noble pair, astride on Pegasus!