"We are commanded to be joyful because he has borne our sorrows. He was a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief so that we need not be. Our own sins and limitations are the things that make us sad. He had no sins and limitations: he was not sad for his sake, but wholly for ours. Only one could suffer for others who did not deserve to suffer for himself.
If we remain gloomy after what he did for is, it is because we do not accept what he did for is. If we suffer, we deserve to suffer because there is no need for it if we only believe in him."
Hugh Nibley, Of All Things, p. 6
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