"A loss can be healing; something bad can be good for us for the very
reason that it oppresses and torments us. This curious configuration,
this association of seeming incompatibles, becomes clear in a single
case: in the concept and the reality of
just punishment. And just this is expressed by the [Christian] tradition: death has been imposed upon man as punishment." (Josef Pieper
, Death and Immortality)
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