The Christian does not say, "What cannot be cured must be endured."Christianity says, rather, that these things must be endured because theyare part of the cure. They have the strange and mystic power to make wholeand strong and so to lead on to victory and the final glory. Christianityis never the dour pessimism that submits. Christianity is optimism thatcooperates with the process because it sees that, through suffering andweakness, joy and triumph must come.

G. Campbell Morgan