You can't know, you can only believe - or not.
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Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good.
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But there must be a real giving up of the self. You must throw it away 'blindly' so to speak. Christ will indeed give you a real personality: but you must not go to Him for the sake of that. As long as your own personality is what you are bothering about you are not going to Him at all. The very first step is to try to forget about the self altogether. Your real, new self (which is Christ's and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for Him.
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For any happiness, even in this world, quite a lot of restraint is going to be necessary..
Faith is the art of holding on to things in spite of your changing moods and circumstances.
Of Course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did, He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is).. Continue seeking Him with seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him.
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If human life is in fact ordered by a beneficent being whose knowledge of our real needs and of the way in which they can be satisfied infinitely exceeds our own, we must expect a priori that his operations will often appear to us far from beneficent and far from wise, and that it will be our highest prudence to give him our confidence in spite of this.
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Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.
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