Tim Keller on Enduring Suffering Without Losing HopeGerald L. Sittser
This explains why." God ties the pain of love and marriage and the pain of work very closely together in these verses. Both childbearing and farming are now called "painful labor." Theologian W.R. Forrester writes, "in language after language the same word is used for toil and child-be...
economic breakdown, and the end of the world. As a result, my fear of being attacked spun out of control. I became obsessed with protecting myself from every possible threat. I researched what to do if I was arrested and thrown in jail. I spent hundreds of dollars on food and equipment...
Helen Keller was the first deaf and blind person to gain a university degree. Her activism and writing proved inspirational. She wrote, “Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can vision be cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved....
But she did not give up and was determined that she never will.“Sometimes I wish I could stop,because then the pain would be over,but I am afraid that if I let myself stop just once,I would be tempted(诱惑) to do it again.”Such doggedness draws admiration from Steve Trew,the sp...