created to sit us down like this in silence and torpor, neither among the living nor among the dead!!

"How am I to triumph over pain?" my friend asks me — when the field of work is wide indeed. How many a great and mighty work is the child of pain, its nursling? How many a poet, how many a man of letters, was brought out into fame and glory by nothing but pain — pain alone — and but for it neither would have been anything worth mention...

Our absorption in some humane work — in easing the pains of humanity, in attending to the misfortunes of others — can erase, if only for a time, some of our aching grief, or lighten its weight. And this opens the door to a wide road of noble works that await us, works in urgent need of every hand that consoles and helps...

...And when despair floods your heart, and the walls of your soul crumble in an hour of your weakness, and you doubt the sacred mission for which you came — return to God; return to Him in humility, and take refuge in prayer — prayer that rises from the depths, joined with the warmth of faith. You will find God at your side, strengthening your faltering will and granting you peace of soul and warmth of spirit...

...I have known for years a lady who fought a hero's fight in the field of letters and journalism. At last she took to her bed, crippled by illness, which left her body, in its wasting, the shadow of a body. She speaks in a weak, failing voice, and her voice comes from between her lips like a whisper, like soft warbling... and weak as it is, it is lavish in its giving of wisdom and counsel. Never once did I visit her — with much despair and its like within

me — without being humbled in her presence, and filled with new strength to walk on with courage and steadfastness and to take up again my struggle in this life. I still remember one of her sayings, which she would often repeat before me:

"Pain steels our wills and fits us for the noble spiritual struggle; and we are not worthy of the grace of the beautiful, free life until we have known pain — until we have tasted it in our blood, in our bones, in our brains, and in the utmost depths of our souls!"

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