"Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it."

God, Man, Want, Will

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"Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it."

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"You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do."

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"Love is the opener as well as closer of eyes."

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"This is a sane wholesome practical working faith: That it is a man's business to do the will of God second that God himself takes on the care of that man and third that therefore that man ought never to be afraid of anything."

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"You must give him time,' said her grandmother;'and you must be content not to be believed for a while. It is very hard to bear; but I have had to bear it, and shall have to bear it yet. I will take care of what Curdie thinks of you in the end. You must let him go now."

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"A perfect faith would lift us absolutely above fear."

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"It is the heart that is unsure of its God that is afraid to laugh."

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"A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it."

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"The truth she gathered, enlarging her strength, enlarged likewise the composure that comes of strength."

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"My prayers my God flow from what I am not I think Thy answers make me what I am."

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"When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over."

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"We must remember that God is not occupied with a grand toy of worlds and suns and planets, of attractions and repulsions, of agglomerations and crystallizations, of forces and waves; that these but constitute a portion of his workshops and tools for the bringing out of righteous men and women to fill his house of love withal."

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