If we are truly devoted to doing God's will, pain and pleasure won't make any difference to us.
Brother LawrenceHave courage then: make a virtue of necessity: ask of God, not deliverance from your pains, but strength to bear resolutely, for the love of Him, all that He should please, and as long as He shall please.
Brother LawrenceWere I a preacher, I should preach above all other things, the practice of the Presence of God.... Those who have the gale of the Holy Spirit go forward, even in sleep.
Brother Lawrence