God provides the wind, but man must raise the sails.
More from Augustine of Hippo
God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.
Permalink to quote #60 He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he be a king.
Permalink to quote #62 God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist.
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