“God does not intend people, and does not like people, to be too good. He likes them neither too good nor too bad, but a little too bad is more venial with him than a little too good.”

On his poverty-stricken background - "Rare Pictures Of TB Joshua's Early Life Surface" http://zambianeye.com/archives/34213 Zambian Eye (June 25 2015)

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, as quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources (1899) by James Wood, p. 61; usually attributed to Doris Lessing in the form: "Man — who is he? Too bad, to be the work of God: Too good for the work of chance!"
Misattributed

Der Mensch, wo ist er her?
Zu schlecht für einen Gott, zu gut fürs Ungefähr.
As quoted in Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern English and Foreign Sources (1899) by James Wood, p. 61
Variant: Man — who is he? Too bad to be the work of God; Too good for the work of chance!

Source: The Native Star (2010), Chapter 20, “The Otherwhere Marble” (p. 274)

Source: They Do It with Mirrors

Source: Diverse new Sorts of Soylenot yet brought into any publique Use, 1594, p. 30; Cited in: Malcolm Thick (1994)

The Sayings of the Wise (1555)

Section 2, “Vortex“ (p. 214)
Mother of Storms (1994)