CHRISTIANS AND SUFFERING
Malcolm Muggeridge wrote in A Twentieth Century Testimony: I can say with complete truthfulness that everything I have learned in my seventy-five years in this world, everything that has truly enhanced and enlightened my existence, has been through affliction and not through happiness, whether pursued or attained. In other words, if it ever were to be possible to eliminate affliction from our earthly existence by means of some drug or other medical mumbo-jumbo, as Aldous Huxley envisaged in Brave New World, the result would not be to make life delectable, but to make it too banal and trivial to be endurable. Quoted by Kent & Barbara Hughes, Liberating Ministry from the Success Syndrome, pg. 121
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