“[Jesus] carried our sorrows. He suffered . . . not that we might not suffer, but that our sufferings might be like His. To hell, then, with self-pity . . . Every stage on the pilgrimage is a chance to know Him, to be brought to Him. Loneliness is a stage (and, thank God, only a stage) when we are terribly aware of our own helplessness . . . We may accept this, thankful that it brings us to the Very Present Help.”
