Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.

Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.

Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, And Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.

Jim had to go on the dole, but he didn't wear the pain on his sleeve, ... He accepted it and kept trying to do the best he could for his family. The Great Depression is a character, and I think the villain in this piece is poverty. If there's a single moment in Braddock's life that I think makes him important in history, it's the fact that he went to the Social Security Commission and repaid the money he'd taken when he was on the dole. That shows you more about his character than anything in his boxing career.

If Christ is God, He cannot sin, and if suffering was a sin in and by itself, He could not have suffered and died for us. However, since He took the most horrific death to redeem us, He showed us in fact that suffering and pain have great power.

Pain is no evil unless it conquers us.