Suffering

Craig Bullock (Assisi Institute) on suffering and the love of God (emphasis mine):

Jesus tells us that we will experience suffering in this world. He teaches us that that life on planet earth is a mixture of light and darkness, and that we must each carry our crosses with faith and dignity. Half the battle, therefore, is accepting pain as a part of life and understanding that life will necessarily "appear" to be very unfair at times. ... We humans seem to be unwilling to grow, to evolve, or to reach for God without the presence of pain.