The Chief End of the Church Catechism

The Holy Spirit is chiseling us into shape so that we fit in with each other. The Lord is a master stone mason, and he's working our lives to make us fit better into his plan. Don't you think if stones could speak when they're being chiseled? They'd be saying, Ouch, that hurts. So it shouldn't surprise us if our own lives are punctuated by a series of ouch Lord that hurts when he builds us into his church.