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C. S. Lewis introduced the phrase pain, the megaphone of God. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains, he said; it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.3 The word megaphone is apropos, because by its nature pain shouts. When I stub my toe or twist an ankle, pain loudly announces to my brain that something is wrong. Similarly, the existence of suffering on this earth is, I believe, a scream to all of us that something is wrong. It halts us in our tracks and forces us to consider other values.

Philip Yancey

C. S. Lewis introduced the phrase pain, the megaphone of God. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains, he said; it is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.3 The word megaphone is apropos, because by its nature pain shouts. When I stub my toe or twist an ankle, pain loudly announces to my brain that something is wrong. Similarly, the existence of suffering on this earth is, I believe, a scream to all of us that something is wrong. It halts us in our tracks and forces us to consider other values.

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