God creates us free free to be selfish but He adds a mechanism that will penetrate our selfishness and wake us up to the presence of others in this world and that mechanism is called suffering.
William Nicholson
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Selfsufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are selfsufficient you have no need of God. If you have no need of God you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him you will not find Him.
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To put it another way pain is Gods megaphone to rouse a deaf world. Why must it be pain Why cant he rouse us more gently with violins or laughter Because the dream from which we must be wakened is the dream that all is well.
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