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title: "81 Goodness God Quotes by 67 authors"
description: "Browse 81 Goodness God quotes by 67 authors. Discover the best Goodness God sayings and thoughts."
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> [“Even the things we don't understand are a display of the goodness of God.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/liz-curtis-higgs/even-the-things-we-don-t-understand-are-a-display-of-the-goodness-of/)

[Liz Curtis Higgs](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/liz-curtis-higgs/)

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> [“The gospel opens our heart to the goodness of God,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lailah-gifty-akita/the-gospel-opens-our-heart-to-the-goodness-of-god/)

[Lailah Gifty Akita](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lailah-gifty-akita/)

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> [What is the scent of water?" "Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-goudge/what-is-the-scent-of-water-renewal-the-goodness-of-god-coming-down/)

[Elizabeth Goudge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-goudge/)

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> [“The gospel is about the goodness of God.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lailah-gifty-akita/the-gospel-is-about-the-goodness-of-god/)

[Lailah Gifty Akita](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lailah-gifty-akita/)

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> [We are kept all as securely in Love in woe as in weal, by the Goodness of God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-of-norwich/we-are-kept-all-as-securely-in-love-in-woe-as-in-weal-by-the-goodness/)

[Julian of Norwich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-of-norwich/)

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> [A saint is not someone who is good but who experiences the goodness of God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/brennan-manning/a-saint-is-not-someone-who-is-good-but-who-experiences-the-goodness/)

[Brennan Manning](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/brennan-manning/)

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> [“May the goodness of God's face forever shine on our path.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/laiah-gifty-akita/may-the-goodness-of-god-s-face-forever-shine-on-our-path/)

[Laiah Gifty Akita](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/laiah-gifty-akita/)

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> [Grace is not reserved for good people; grace underscores the goodness of God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/andy-stanley/grace-is-not-reserved-for-good-people-grace-underscores-the-goodness/)

[Andy Stanley](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/andy-stanley/)

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> [The egg is white though the hen is black as coal...Out of evil comes good, through the great goodness of God.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/the-egg-is-white-though-the-hen-is-black-as-coal-out-of-evil-comes/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“I wonder at the goodness of God, the generosity of my friends, the bounty of my lot. I do not repine.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charlotte-bronte/i-wonder-at-the-goodness-of-god-the-generosity-of-my-friends-the/)

[Charlotte Brontë](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charlotte-bronte/)

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> [If you feel alone just think of the goodness of God in your life and the people who really love you. Don't…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marianette-carbito/if-you-feel-alone-just-think-of-the-goodness-of-god-in-your-life-and/)

[Marianette Carbito](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marianette-carbito/)

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> [Don't allow the opinions of other people to shape your concept of him. Get to know him yourself, and let the goodness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/judah-smith/don-t-allow-the-opinions-of-other-people-to-shape-your-concept-of-him/)

[Judah Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/judah-smith/)

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> [“In any miracle, chase the causation back far enough and eventually you'll find yourself irrepressibly singing in praise of the marvelous goodness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/matthew-lee-anderson/in-any-miracle-chase-the-causation-back-far-enough-and-eventually-you/)

[Matthew Lee Anderson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/matthew-lee-anderson/)

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> [It is only the goodness of God sensibly experienced by us which opens our mouth to celebrate His praise.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-calvin/it-is-only-the-goodness-of-god-sensibly-experienced-by-us-which-opens/)

[John Calvin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-calvin/)

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> [But for I am a woman should I therefore live that I should not tell you the goodness of God?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-of-norwich/but-for-i-am-a-woman-should-i-therefore-live-that-i-should-not-tell/)

[Julian of Norwich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-of-norwich/)

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> [I'm abundantly aware of the undeserved goodness of God I've experienced early in life. Especially when it comes to the health of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/samantha-ponder/i-m-abundantly-aware-of-the-undeserved-goodness-of-god-i-ve/)

[Samantha Ponder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/samantha-ponder/)

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> [“Thomas Aquinas said that people are fundamentally good and seek the goodness that is God. It goes wrong when we allow ourselves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lucette-verboven/thomas-aquinas-said-that-people-are-fundamentally-good-and-seek-the/)

Lucette Verboven

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> [As it is impossible to verbally describe the sweetness of honey to one who has never tasted honey, so the goodness of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/saint-basil/as-it-is-impossible-to-verbally-describe-the-sweetness-of-honey-to/)

[Saint Basil](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/saint-basil/)

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> [I have often thought with wonder of the great goodness of God; and my soul has rejoiced in the contemplation of His…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/i-have-often-thought-with-wonder-of-the-great-goodness-of-god-and-my/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [We do not need to achieve some minimum level or capacity or goodness before God will help - divine aid can be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/d-todd-christofferson/we-do-not-need-to-achieve-some-minimum-level-or-capacity-or-goodness/)

[D. Todd Christofferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/d-todd-christofferson/)

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> [With the goodness of God to desire our highest welfare, the wisdom of God to plan it, and the power of God…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/aiden-wilson-tozer/with-the-goodness-of-god-to-desire-our-highest-welfare-the-wisdom-of/)

[Aiden Wilson Tozer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/aiden-wilson-tozer/)

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> [“But if you can find it within yourself, in the wildest of seasons, just for a moment, to trust in the goodness…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/shauna-niequist/but-if-you-can-find-it-within-yourself-in-the-wildest-of-seasons-just/)

[Shauna Niequist](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/shauna-niequist/)

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> [I have often felt a motion of love to leave some hints in writing of my experience of the goodness of God,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-woolman/i-have-often-felt-a-motion-of-love-to-leave-some-hints-in-writing-of/)

[John Woolman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-woolman/)

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> [“Then the shimmering opened like a door to the other side, and I saw that the gate led to another dimension of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julia-c-loren/then-the-shimmering-opened-like-a-door-to-the-other-side-and-i-saw/)

[Julia C. Loren](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julia-c-loren/)

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> [In whatsoever manner it be, let me turn to God and become fruitful in good works. Nothing higher exists than to approach…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ludwig-van-beethoven/in-whatsoever-manner-it-be-let-me-turn-to-god-and-become-fruitful-in/)

[Ludwig van Beethoven](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ludwig-van-beethoven/)

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> [If men do their best endeavours to free themselves from all errors, and yet fail of it through human frailty, so well…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-chillingworth/if-men-do-their-best-endeavours-to-free-themselves-from-all-errors/)

William Chillingworth

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> [“Had God kept from being made those who through His goodness were to have existence, but who by their own choice were…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-of-damascus/had-god-kept-from-being-made-those-who-through-his-goodness-were-to/)

[John of Damascus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-of-damascus/)

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> [“God loves his creatures, and he loves each one the more, the more it shares his own goodness, which is the first…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/st-thomas-aquinas/god-loves-his-creatures-and-he-loves-each-one-the-more-the-more-it/)

[St. Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/st-thomas-aquinas/)

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> [Because the divine goodness could not be adequately represented by one creature alone, God produced many and diverse creatures, that what was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-aquinas/because-the-divine-goodness-could-not-be-adequately-represented-by/)

[Thomas Aquinas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-aquinas/)

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> [And when I hear it said that God is good and He will pardon us, and then see that men cease not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/catherine-of-genoa/and-when-i-hear-it-said-that-god-is-good-and-he-will-pardon-us-and/)

[Catherine of Genoa](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/catherine-of-genoa/)

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> [Jean was visited by one of her rare moments of happiness, one of those moments when the goodness of God was so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/elizabeth-goudge/jean-was-visited-by-one-of-her-rare-moments-of-happiness-one-of-those/)

[Elizabeth Goudge](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/elizabeth-goudge/)

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> [“For the Goodness of God is the highest prayer, and it cometh down to the lowest part of our need. It quickeneth…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/julian-of-norwich/for-the-goodness-of-god-is-the-highest-prayer-and-it-cometh-down-to/)

[Julian of Norwich](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/julian-of-norwich/)

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> [“91 THE HONESTY OF GOD. An omniscient and omnipotent God who does not even take care that His intentions shall be understood…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/friedrich-nietzsche/91-the-honesty-of-god-an-omniscient-and-omnipotent-god-who-does-not/)

[Friedrich Nietzsche](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/friedrich-nietzsche/)

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> [“At that moment the universe appeared to me a vast machine constructed only to produce evil. I almost doubted the goodness of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/emily-bronte/at-that-moment-the-universe-appeared-to-me-a-vast-machine-constructed/)

[Emily Brontë](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/emily-bronte/)

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> [“Because the sacred fire that lights all nature liveliest of all in its own image glows. All these prerogatives the human creature…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dante-alighieri/because-the-sacred-fire-that-lights-all-nature-liveliest-of-all-in/)

[Dante Alighieri](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dante-alighieri/)

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> [“Just as it is by His goodness that God gives being to beings, so also it is by His goodness that He…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/etienne-gilson/just-as-it-is-by-his-goodness-that-god-gives-being-to-beings-so-also/)

[Étienne Gilson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/etienne-gilson/)

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> [“Every one of us can look back and see times where God has left us handfuls of blessings on purpose, something we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joel-osteen/every-one-of-us-can-look-back-and-see-times-where-god-has-left-us/)

[Joel Osteen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joel-osteen/)

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> [“O infinite goodness of my God! It is thus that I seem to see both myself and Thee. O Joy of the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/santa-teresa-de-jes-s/o-infinite-goodness-of-my-god-it-is-thus-that-i-seem-to-see-both/)

[Santa Teresa de Jesús](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/santa-teresa-de-jes-s/)

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> [“How, then, shall he be a God, who has not as yet been made a man? Or how can he be perfect…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/the-church-fathers/how-then-shall-he-be-a-god-who-has-not-as-yet-been-made-a-man-or-how/)

The Church Fathers

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> [Remember the goodness of God in the frost of adversity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/charles-spurgeon/remember-the-goodness-of-god-in-the-frost-of-adversity/)

[Charles Spurgeon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/charles-spurgeon/)

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                        "text": "“91 THE HONESTY OF GOD. An omniscient and omnipotent God who does not even take care that His intentions shall be understood by His creatures could He be a God of goodness ? A God, who, for thousands of years, has permitted innumerable doubts and scruples to continue unchecked as if they were of no importance in the salvation of mankind, and who, nevertheless, announces the most dreadful consequences for anyone who mistakes his truth ? Would he not be a cruel god if, being himself in possession of the truth, he could calmly contemplate mankind, in a state of miserable torment, worrying its mind as to what was truth ? Perhaps, however, he really is a God of goodness, and was unable to express Himself more clearly ? Perhaps he lacked intelligence enough for this? Or eloquence ? All the worse ! For in such a cas6 he may have been deceived himself in regard to what he calls his \" truth,\" and may not be far from being another \" poor, deceived devil ! \" Must he not therefore experience all the torments of hell at seeing His creatures suffering so much here below and even more, suffering through all eternity when he himself can neither advise nor help them, except as a deaf and dumb person, who makes all kinds of equivocal signs when his child or his dog is threatened with the most fearful danger ? A distressed believer who argues thus might be pardoned if his pity for the suffering God were greater than his pity for his \"neighbours\"; for they are his neighbours no longer if that most solitary and primeval being is also the greatest sufferer and stands most in need of consolation. Every religion shows some traits of the fact that it owes its origin to a state of human intellectuality which was as yet too young and immature : they all make light of the necessity for speaking the truth : as yet they know nothing of the duty of God, the duty of being clear and truthful in His communications with men. No one was more eloquent than Pascal in speaking of the \" hidden God \" and the reasons why He had to keep Himself hidden, all of which indicates clearly enough that Pascal himself could never make his mind easy on this point : but he speaks with such confidence that one is led to imagine that he must have been let into the secret at some time or other. He seemed to have some idea that the deus absconditus bore a few slight traces of immorality ; and he felt too much ashamed and afraid of acknowledging this to himself: consequently, like a man who is afraid, he spoke as loudly as he could.”",
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                        "text": "“At that moment the universe appeared to me a vast machine constructed only to produce evil. I almost doubted the goodness of God, in not annihilating man on the day he first sinned. \"The world should have been destroyed,\" I said, \"crushed as I crush this reptile which has done nothing in its life but render all that it touches as disgusting as itself.\" I had scarcely removed my foot from the poor insect when, like a censoring angel sent from heaven, there came fluttering through the trees a butterfly with large wings of lustrous gold and purple. It shone but a moment before my eyes; then, rising among the leaves, it vanished into the height of the azure vault. I was mute, but an inner voice said to me, \"Let not the creature judge his Creator; here is a symbol of the world to come. As the ugly caterpillar is the origin of the splendid butterfly, so this globe is the embryo of a new heaven and a new earth whose poorest beauty will infinitely exceed your mortal imagination. And when you see the magnificent result of that which seems so base to you now, how you will scorn your blind presumption, in accusing Omniscience for not having made nature perish in her infancy. God is the god of justice and mercy; then surely, every grief that he inflicts on his creatures, be they human or animal, rational or irrational, every suffering of our unhappy nature is only a seed of that divine harvest which will be gathered when, Sin having spent its last drop of venom, Death having launched its final shaft, both will perish on the pyre of a universe in flames and leave their ancient victims to an eternal empire of happiness and glory.”",
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                        "text": "“Because the sacred fire that lights all nature liveliest of all in its own image glows. All these prerogatives the human creature possesses, and if one of them should fail, he must diminish from his noble stature. Sin only can disenfranchise him, and veil his likeness to the Highest Good; whereby the light in him is lessened and grows pale. Ne'er can he win back dignities so high till the void made by guilt be all filled in with just amends paid for by illicit joy. Now, when your nature as a whole did sin in its first root, it lost these great awards, and lost the Eden of its origin; nor might they be recovered afterwards by any means, as if thou search thou'lt see, except by crossing one of these two fords; either must God, of his sole courtesy, remit, or man must pay with all that's his, the debt of sin in its entirety. Within the Eternal Counsel's deep abyss rivet thine eye, and with a heed as good as thou canst give me, do thou follow this. Man from his finite assets never could make satisfaction; ne'er could he abase him so low, obey thereafter all he would, as he'd by disobedience sought to raise him; and for this cause man might not pay his due himself, nor from the debtor's roll erase him. Needs then must God, by his own ways, renew man's proper life, and reinstate him so; his ways I say - by one, or both of two. And since the doer's actions ever show more gracious as the style of them makes plain the goodness of the heart from which they flow, that most high Goodness which is God was fain - even God, whose impress Heaven and earth display - by all His ways to lift you up again; nor, between final night and primal day, was e'er proceeding so majestical and high, nor shall not be, by either way; for God's self-giving, which made possible that man should raise himself, showed more largesse than if by naked power He'd cancelled all; and every other means would have been less than justice, if it had not pleased God's Son to be humiliate in fleshliness.”",
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                        "text": "“Just as it is by His goodness that God gives being to beings, so also it is by His goodness that He makes causes to be causes, thus delegating to them a certain participation in His actuality. Or rather, since causality flows from actuality, let us say that He confers the one in conferring the other, so that to the Christian mind the physical world in which we live offers a face which is the reverse of its physicism itself, a face where all that was read on the one side in terms of force, energy and law, is now read, on the other in terms of participations and analogies of the Divine Being. The Christian world takes on the character of a sacred world with a relation to God inscribed in its very being and every law that rules its functioning.”",
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                        "text": "“Every one of us can look back and see times where God has left us handfuls of blessings on purpose, something we didn’t deserve, we didn’t have to struggle for, we didn’t even ask for it. We just stumbled into it. Now here is my challenge: Don’t apologize for God’s goodness. Don’t downplay what God has done in your life. Don’t make excuses because a friend might be jealous. Don’t try to hide God’s blessings because a co-worker might judge you and think it’s not fair. One key to happiness is to wear your blessings well. You may not feel you deserved a blessing, but favor is not always fair. It’s just the goodness of God. The moment you start apologizing for what God has done and downplaying His goodness, God will find somebody else to favor. I’m not saying you should show off and brag on what you have and how great you are. But you should brag on how great God is. We used to sing a song growing up called “Look What the Lord Has Done.” That’s the song to sing. All through the day, praise God’s goodness. When you’re bragging on God’s goodness, when you’re giving Him all the credit, you are wearing your blessings well. David said in Psalm 118:23, “This was the Lord’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes” (NKJV). That is a great attitude. Give Him credit for every good thing that happens: “This was the Lord’s doing.”",
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                        "text": "“O infinite goodness of my God! It is thus that I seem to see both myself and Thee. O Joy of the angels, how I long, when I think of this, to be wholly consumed in love for Thee! How true it is that Thou dost bear with those who cannot bear Thee to be with them! Oh, how good a Friend art Thou, my Lord! How Thou dost comfort us and suffer us and wait until our nature becomes more like Thine and meanwhile dost bear with it as it is! Thou dost remember the times when we love Thee, my Lord, and, when for a moment we repent, Thou dost forget how we offended Thee. I have seen this clearly in my own life, and I cannot conceive, my Creator, why the whole world does not strive to draw near to Thee in this intimate friendship. Those of us who are wicked, and whose nature is not like Thine, ought to draw near to Thee so that Thou mayest make them good. They should allow Thee to be with them for at least two hours each day, even though they may not be with Thee, but are perplexed, as I was, with a thousand worldly cares and thoughts. In exchange for the effort which it costs them to desire to be in such good company (for Thou knowest, Lord, that at first this is as much as they can do and sometimes they can do no more at all) Thou dost prevent the devils from assaulting them so that each day they are able to do them less harm, and Thou givest them strength to conquer. Yea, Life of all lives, Thou slayest none of those that put their trust in Thee and desire Thee for their Friend; rather dost Thou sustain their bodily life with greater health and give strength to their souls.”",
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                        "text": "“How, then, shall he be a God, who has not as yet been made a man? Or how can he be perfect who was but lately created? How, again, can he be immortal, who in his mortal nature did not obey his Maker? For it must be that thou, at the outset, shouldest hold the rank of a man, and then afterwards partake of the glory of God. For thou dost not make God, but God thee. If, then, thou art God’s workmanship, await the hand of thy Maker which creates everything in due time; in due time as far as thou art concerned, whose creation is being carried out. Offer to Him thy heart in a soft and tractable state, and preserve the form in which the Creator has fashioned thee, having moisture in thyself, lest, by becoming hardened, thou lose the impressions of His fingers. But by preserving the framework thou shalt ascend to that which is perfect, for the moist clay which is in thee is hidden [there] by the workmanship of God. His hand fashioned thy substance; He will cover thee over [too] within and without with pure gold and silver, and He will adorn thee to such a degree, that even “the King Himself shall have pleasure in thy beauty.” But if thou, being obstinately hardened, dost reject the operation of His skill, and show thyself ungrateful towards Him, because thou wert created a [mere] man, by becoming thus ungrateful to God, thou hast at once lost both His workmanship and life. For creation is an attribute of the goodness of God but to be created is that of human nature. If then, thou shalt deliver up to Him what is thine, that is, faith towards Him and subjection, thou shalt receive His handiwork, and shall be a perfect work of God.”",
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