"...we shrink from suffering and can easily call all suffering an evil thing. Yet we live in an epoch of tragic sorrows... And holy obedience must walk in this world, not aloof and preoccupied, but stained with sorrow's travail."
"Nor is the God-blinded soul given blissful oblivion but, rather, excruciatingly sensitive eyesight toward the world of men. The sources of suffering for the tendered soul are infinitely multiplied, well-nigh beyond all endurance."
"Ponder this paradox in religious experience: 'Nothing matters; everything matters.'"
"The times are too tragic, God's sorrow is too great, man's night is too dark, the Cross is too glorious for us to live as we have lived, in anything short of holy obedience."
Entrance into Suffering
Quotes from A Testament of Devotion by Thomas R. Kelley
