Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about.
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Zum Autor"The rule of the universe is that others can do for us what we cannot do for ourselves, and one can paddle every canoe except one's own."
"I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process."
"If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will - that is, for making a live world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings - then we may take it (that) it is worth paying."
"Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained."
"My prayer is that when I die, all of hell rejoices that I am out of the fight."
"But of course these conjectures as to why God does what He does are probably of no more value than my dog's ideas of what I am up to when I sit and read."