To You, O Lord, do I complain, and only You are able to console and strengthen me as You save me. You alone! As the saying goes, complaints to anyone other than God are humiliation. When I speak with You, I find comfort. I find comfort within me, reassured of Your work and intervention. I also find external comfort, as a result of Your work for me. You are the compassionate bosom on which I recline, and ask “Why?”, or, “How can this happen?” “O Lord, those who afflict me have multiplied.” Certainly, O Lord, You are not one of them, because You are my consolation and salvation.

—H.H. Pope Shenouda III, Dialogue with the Divine