WHY SUFFERING? – PHILOSOPHICAL & CHRISTIAN REFLECTIONS Version 1.0 Dated: 1^st May 2003

“Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much are the three pillars of learning” Benjamin Disraeli

SUFFERING AND THE POETS Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity. William Wordsworth, The Borders For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe. William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice If suffer we must, let’s suffer on the heights. Victor Hugo “Come with me and let us reason together.” (Isaiah 1:18) [Isaiah is the 23^rd Book of the Old Testament of the Bible]