First Sentence

"The phrase 'the art of suffering' is taken from a passage in Richard Baxter's The saints everlasting rest, where Baxter answers a complaint from a putative reader that it is intolerable to have to suffer at the hands of a fellow-saint: 'Till thou hast learned to suffer from a saint, as well as from the wicked, and to be abused by the godly as well as the ungodly, never look to live a contented or comfortable life, nor ever think thou hast truly learned the art of suffering.'"