Learn how to suffer, and you will suffer no longer, according to a wise, centuries-old saying. But can this lesson ever really be learned? Where does suffering come from? What is the origin of the, often faceless, rampage of evil in the world, a world which the believer (despite all suffering) accepts as created by God, and which the unbeliever must eventually also accept as good, if he or she wants to go on living? Or would it be more useful to focus on the significance of evil, rather than its source?