Quote #96

When God looks at a man's life, he sees infinitely more in it than the man ever saw in it himself, or that all his fellow creatures have seen. As when a man looks on a map and the whole of the country is before him, so does God look down upon our life as it is spread out for his inspection, and he sees it all at once.

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