"Yet it has been a joy to me to know that you were bearing this great sorrow in a spirit of patient submission to the will of him who is "too wise to err, too good to be unkind." ... May the Lord bless and comfort you as he alone can. All human words are weak in the presence of such sorrow."
— Lottie Moon
Source: Letter of condolence to her cousin James and his wife on the death of their son Lindsay (c. 1902), in Una Roberts Lawrence, Lottie Moon (1927), pp. 279-280
Suffering, joy, gratitude, thanks to God
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"It is good to find that among our missionaries as well as other missions, most have chosen to stay at their posts instead of evacuating. They have chosen to stay to suffer with the people. I am so grateful to be back here."
— Peter Torjesen
Source: Written after returning to Hequ, Shanxi, through the war zones in 1938 (quoted in the Biographical Dictionary of Chinese Christianity, "Peter & Valborg Torjesen")
Suffering, love, darkness, fear, light
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""If I could, I would take the whole misery of the world on myself, and throw myself into the sea with it." … "You need not do that, Eva, it was done long ago by Christ on the Cross.""