Many have puzzled themselves about the origin of evil; I observe that there is evil, and that there is a way to escape it, and with this I begin and end.
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“There is many a thing which the world calls disappointment: but there is no such thing in the dictionary of faith. What to others are disappointments are to believers intimations of the will of God.”
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