“Consider this passage from Saint Peter: “Therefore, since Christ suffered in his body, arm yourselves also with the same attitude, because whoever suffers in the body is done with sin” (1 Peter 4:1). This shows us that in order for us to be able to break away from sin, we must suffer.
For our sake and in our person, sin and suffering must be set face to face; pain must be used to destroy the sin in us, not as an atonement for sin—that is found only in Jesus Christ—but so that we may learn to unite pain with sin and joy with sanctification & deliverance. Very well, then, this thought that pain is a fruit of sin is able to sustain us because it makes us consider pain as a simple and natural path from which we could not and should not be spared.”
— Adolphe Monod, Living in the hope of glory
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