Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardour of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ of old.
Who doesn't desire his fathers death?
What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
I utter what you would not dare think
Walking along the crowded row He met the one he used to know.
For broad understanding and deep feeling, you need pain and suffering.