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If, on the other hand, poverty, ugliness, illness, childlessness, lack of appreciation and defeats fall to our lot, and we attribute them to Providence, what comfort it brings us amid such hard lines I With what high spirit, think you, such a man rises above the world and scorns what is below him I Having said to himself, “These things are given…
Ulrich Zwingli — On Providence and Other Essays, On Providence and Other Essays