Quotes from the Problem of Pain

Human Pain
p. 81

We can rest contentedly in our sins and in our stupidities; and anyone who has watched gluttons shoveling down the most exquisite foods as if they did not know what they were eating, will admit that we can ignore even pleasure.  But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

Quotes from the Problem of Pain

The Fall of Man (&"Free Will")
p. 72

The world is a dance in which good, descending from God, is disturbed by evil arising from the creatures, and the resulting conflict is resolved by God's own assumption of the suffering nature which evil produces.

Quotes from the Problem of Pain

The Son of God suffered unto the death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like His.
George MacDonald, Unspoken Sermons, First Series
Intro to Preface