The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disda…

Albert Camus
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The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and the deaths of children, it alone can justify them, since we cannot understand them, and we can only make God's will ours. ✨ Albert Camus (2012). The Plague, p.228, Vintage
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