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About the Book: Making Sense Out of Suffering by Peter Kreeft


It's been in my shelves collecting dust for awhile. Just started reading it recently. When I initially picked it up from our church's rummage sale few years ago, I thought it's one of those same old, common self-improvement books how to comfort yourself or others who are suffering, but I was quite surprised. A mix bag of philosophy, theology, dialogue, etc. that reminds and widens one's perspective of the purpose and meaning of suffering in Peter Kreeft's (author of Jesus Shock) usual straight-forward, no non-sense style of writing & wisdom.

Some quotes from the book:
“Atheism robs death of meaning. And if death has no meaning, how can life ultimately have meaning? For death is the end of life here”

 “Haven’t you forgotten the first and most important lesson in all of philosophy, the lesson taught to all of us by Socrates, the father of philosophy? That you are wise only when you are humble, that the very first bit of wisdom and the prerequisite for all others is the realization that we are not wise”

 “St. Augustine says, “If God is, why is there evil? But if God is not, why is there good?”

“As C.S. Lewis says, “God whispers in our pleasures but shouts in our pains. Pain is his megaphone to rouse a dulled world.”
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