Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair.
Pain is G-d's megaphone to wake up the world.
Sometimes fairy stories may say best what's to be said.
You have no idea what an appetite it gives one, being executed.
But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.
What can be better than to get out a book on Saturday afternoon and thrust all mundane considerations away till next week.