The question of suffering is one of the most sensitive questions. Many ask themselves: Why has God created us to suffer in this world from diseases, sorrows, calamities, troubles and misfortunes?... Some in their despair even say that there is no other hell beyond the grave, that hell is here, on earth. In such cases suffering does not carry any meaning in itself that would soften it, making it doubly hard.... Suffering in its nature is nothing else but a withdrawal from God. With God it would be well even in hell.

- Monk Seraphim of Bulgaria (+1993)