We are true to our creed when a little girl born into the bleakest poverty knows that she has the same chance to succeed as anybody else, because she is an American, she is free, and she is equal, not just in the eyes of God but also in our own.

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And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

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The discussion about relying on God to solve our problems without our own action is best illustrated in a story.

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If God does nothing so that we humans might freely display our own charitable virtue, Christians ought to reject compulsion when it comes to transfers of wealth.

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Qualities that with her passing, we too - by the grace of God - may seek to put on afresh, in our own lives and the life of our nation and world.

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But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people and do our best to help them find their own grace.

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Focusing especially on Christianity but including Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Chinese spiritualities, Armstrong examines the diminished impulse toward religion in our own time, when a significant number of people either want nothing to do with God or question the efficacy of faith.

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