Who can love us more than God does? And yet He not only gives us sweet instruction, but also continually stimulates us by healthy fear. God often adds the sharp medicine of suffering to the soothing remedies He comforts us with. He afflicts even the pious and devout patriarchs with famine, strikes a rebellious nation by even more severe punishments, and refuses to take away the apostle's thorn in the flesh (although asked to remove it three times) so that He may perfect His strength in weakness. -- St. Augustine, Letter 93, Par. 4
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