When we really understand what pain has to teach us, we shall in large measure have abolished suffering. Our Lesser Brethren (1919)
Yet, like all God’s wonderful gifts to us, this great gift of pain can be turned into a horrible curse. Just in proportion as God’s love provides the possibility of good, so our vice or ignorance makes the possibility of evil. The abuse of God’s gift of pain may be the cause of the most terrible of evils, and we call it cruelty. Our Lesser Brethren (1919)