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I often think that the ideal of our perfection that we set up, and often go through torture to achieve, may not be God's idea of how He wants us to be at all. That may be something quite different that we never would have thought of, and what seems like a failure to us may really be something bringing us closer to His will for us.

Caryll Houselander

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Caryll Houselander
Age: 53 †
Born: 1901
Born: September 29
Died: 1954
Died: October 12
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