Thursday, March 28, 2013

Suffering

Titian


This terrible deciding power of suffering is summarized in the story of the two thieves crucified with Jesus, who enduring identical pain, one with bitterness and the other with devotion, were, according to popular legend, damned and blessed respectively. In any case Christ's answer to the repentant thief, "Verily I say unto thee, today thou shalt be with me in paradise", suggests the further idea that great suffering, taken rightly, may be transmuted into an energy of such intensity as to neutralize all previous records-

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