"God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.

A simpler form of the same objection consists in saying that death ought not to be final, that there ought to be a second chance. I believe that if a million chances were likely to do good, they would be given.
~ C. S. Lewis ~












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