They are not so much truths about suffering as they are about God. And so I introduce this book with the premise: When God Weeps is not so much about affliction as it is about the only One who can unlock sense out of suffering. It’s not why
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“Therefore he willed that the hearts of Men should seek beyond the world and should find no rest therein; but they should have a virtue to shape their life, amid the powers and chances of the world, beyond the Music of the Ainur, which is as fate to all things else; and of their operation everything should be, in form and deed, completed, and the world fulfilled unto the last and smallest. But Ilúvatar knew that Men, being set amid the turmoils of the powers of the world, would stray often, and would not use their gifts in harmony;”
― The Silmarillion
― The Silmarillion
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