"God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty."

God, Difficulty, Will

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"God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty."

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"God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal."

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"The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush."

David Foster Wallace, American Writer

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David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"I am as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best."

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William Butler Yeats, Irish Poet

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"Man is an exception, whatever else he is. If he is not the image of God, then he is a disease of the dust. If it is not true that a divine being fell, then we can only say that one of the animals went entirely off its head."

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