Someone who is determinedly trying to show God how good he or she is is likely to become an insufferable prig.
Those who claim the right to that arrogance without accomplishments to back it up deserve to be exposed.
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Those who claim the right to that arrogance without accomplishments to back it up deserve to be exposed.
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He (Lincoln) differed from fanatical moralists primarily in that he was always perplexed. No sooner did he believe he was doing God's will that he began to admit that God's purposes might be different from his own. In short, he never forgot the men's contrast between the absolute goodness of God and the faltering goodness of all who are in the finite predicament.