When Catastrophe Strikes
Eberhard Arnold
Only when we take human existence
upon ourselves in its starkest and most
humiliating misery--a misery in which
nothing has meaning--can we win
through to the only possible way to live.
Only when we taste the lot of all, when
we become involved deeply in world
suffering, one in heart with the need
of humanity, can we win through to our
true vocation. Only when the conscience
becomes active, only when love is born
out of suffering, only when hardship
leads to liberating action, is victory near.
New Orleans under water. Hundreds dead (again) in Baghdad. And those are
only yesterday's headlines.
http://www.bruderhof.com/articles/ea/WorldSuffering1.htm
Lecture, April 1919
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