The Last Days of Tolstoy
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I believe that, and cannot but believe it, because I know by experience that the harder my sufferings have been, if only I have succeeded in taking them in a Christian spirit . . . the fuller, more vivid, more joyful and full of meaning life has become. It is so often insincerely repeated that sufferings are good for us and are sent by God, that we have ceased to believe it, and yet it is the simplest, clearest and most indubitable truth.
Suffering — what is called suffering — is the conditio...n of spiritual growth. Without suffering growth is impossible, the widening of life is impossible. For this reason suffer- ings also always accompany death. If a man had no suffering he would be in a bad way ; that is why they say among the people that those whom God loves He visits by mis- fortunes. I understand that a man may be sad and apprehensive when misfortunes have not visited him for a long time. There is no movement, no growth of life. Suffering is only 110 THE LAST DAYS OF TOLSTOY suffering for the heathen, for the man who has not the light of the truth, and for us in the measure in which we have not the Ught; but sufferings cease to be such for the Chris- tian—they become birth-pangs, even as Christ promised to deUver us from evil.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
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I believe that, and cannot but believe it, because I know by experience that the harder my sufferings have been, if only I have succeeded in taking them in a Christian spirit . . . the fuller, more vivid, more joyful and full of meaning life has become. It is so often insincerely repeated that sufferings are good for us and are sent by God, that we have ceased to believe it, and yet it is the simplest, clearest and most indubitable truth.
Suffering — what is called suffering — is the conditio...n of spiritual growth. Without suffering growth is impossible, the widening of life is impossible. For this reason suffer- ings also always accompany death. If a man had no suffering he would be in a bad way ; that is why they say among the people that those whom God loves He visits by mis- fortunes. I understand that a man may be sad and apprehensive when misfortunes have not visited him for a long time. There is no movement, no growth of life. Suffering is only 110 THE LAST DAYS OF TOLSTOY suffering for the heathen, for the man who has not the light of the truth, and for us in the measure in which we have not the Ught; but sufferings cease to be such for the Chris- tian—they become birth-pangs, even as Christ promised to deUver us from evil.
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