Christian faith undercuts the urge to fix everything on our own, through conviction of the final helplessness of man and confidence in the providence of God--through certainty that only God can set everything to rights, and faith that in the end, He will. Man can only ameliorate, not cure.

J. Budziszewski
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The power of Christian faith is that it teaches us to live with regret. We cannot fix everything on our own. The world is too big and there are too many things that are out of our control. It is only through faith that we can still have hope for the future.

Source: What We Cant Not Know: A Guide

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