He who looks at the pain and suffering in the world and concludes that there is no God is like a hammer that complains that a pile of lumber and a box of nails is not a house. It forgets that there is an architect, and a carpenter, and that it, after all, is a hammer.

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There is enough beauty in the world to assure us there is a heaven and enough ugliness to remind us that it is not here.

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The tragedy of the church is that we are often about cross purposes instead of being about the purposes of the cross.