“You must let suffering speak, if you want to hear the truth”

“The need to let suffering speak is a condition of all truth”

“Let me hear you speak farther. I have spirit to do anything that appears not foul in the truth of my spirit.”

“The church must suffer for speaking the truth, for pointing out sin, for uprooting sin. No one wants to have a sore spot touched, and therefore a society with so many sores twitches when someone has the courage to touch it and say: “You have to treat that. You have to get rid of that. Believe in Christ. Be converted.”

“Before you can speak the truth with your lips you must know truth in your heart.Psalm 15:2”

“[D]on’t cling to your self-righteous suffering, let it go. . . . Nothing is too good to be true, let yourself be forgiven. To the degree you insist that you must suffer, you insist on the suffering of others as well. (90)”