Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain.- Ralph Waldo Emerson

For whatever reason God chose to make man as he is--limited
and suffering and subject to sorrows and death--He had the
honesty and courage to take His own medicine. Whatever game He
is playing with His creation, He has kept His own rules and
played fair. He can exact nothing from man that He has not
exacted from Himself. He has Himself gone through the whole of
human experience, from the trivial irritations of family life
and the cramping restrictions of hard work and lack of money to
the worst horrors of pain and humiliation, defeat, despair, and
death. When He was a man, He played the man. He was born in
poverty and died in disgrace and thought it was well
worthwhile.-Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957), Christian Letters to a Post-Christian World, Eerdmans, 1969, p. 14