This is one reason people need to believe in God–because we want someone to know us, truly, all the way through, even the worst of us.

Tim Kreider
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The greatest joy I have ever known comes from knowing God, who knows me even when I don't know myself. To know God is to know myself as He knows me, and that is the greatest joy.

Source: We Learn Nothing

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