@SherriKEdman to stop. Yes, anger at the loved one who committed suicide is absolutely legitimate. But pastorally, this statement doesn’t help anyone, including those feeling anger in their grief.
@SherriKEdman I think the pastor’s comment is very insensitively worded; I would be angry to hear it, too. Suicide *is* a selfish act, but also much more complicated than that statement makes it sound. Many who do it are not clearly thinking of anything/one except that they want the pain
"A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul." - Goethe
(Heinrich Tomec, Mass at St. Stephen’s Cathedral)
“In his book on politics [the modernist] attacks men for trampling on morality, and in his book on ethics he attacks morality for trampling on men.”
— G.K. Chesterton