The parents of these young soldiers would come to me and ask how the Lord could allow such a thing. I felt like asking them what the Lord would have to do to tell us He didn't allow something. But instead I would comfort them by saying we would never know what their young men had been spared. Most of them took me to mean they were spare the trenches and the mustard gas, but what I really meant was that they were spared the act of killing. .Marilynne Robinson
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General George S. Patton said: “The parents of these young soldiers would come to me and ask how the Lord could allow such a thing. I felt like asking them what the Lord would have to do to tell us He didn't allow something. But instead I would comfort them by saying we would never know what their young men had been spared.
Most of them took me to mean they were spare the trenches and the mustard gas, but what I really meant was that they were spared the act of killing.” You think you've got it bad? Try having a friend or loved one go through cancer, and then losing that friend or loved one to cancer. Or try having a friend or loved one suffer from an illness and then watching them lose their health to that illness. Or trying to watch someone you love go through it alone because you can't be there for them or because they don't want you there for them.
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Source: Gilead
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