If God eliminated evil by programming us to perform only good acts, we would lose this distinguishing mark - the ability to make choices. We would no longer be free moral agents. We would be reduced to the status of robots.
If God eliminated evil by ...
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Prayer is the rope that pulls God and man together. But, it doesn't pull God down to us: It pulls us up to Him.
Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.
I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.
The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness and industry.
The thing that I remember the most in my childhood was the love of family and the discipline in the family. My father and mother both were disciplinarians, and they didn't mind using the rod. Maybe because I was the oldest child I always felt I got much more of it than anybody else.
