I think we all sin by needlessly disobeying the apostolic injunction to "rejoice" as much as by anything else
C. S. LewisNothing less will shake a man — or at any rate a man like me — out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself.
C. S. Lewis