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One test of authentic joy is its compatibility with pain. Joy in this world is always joy “in spite of” something. Joy is, as Karl Barth put it, a “defiant nevertheless” set at a full stop against bitterness and resentment.
『真實喜樂』的考驗之一,是在於能否與痛苦並存。 在這世上,從神來的喜樂一直是 『雖然如此、依然存在』的喜樂。 正如卡爾巴特所說, 喜樂是一種『不受影響的然而』, 能止息心中的苦毒與怨恨。
— by John Ortberg from his book『The Life You've Always Wanted』
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