“It is impossible to talk with you. You always draw conclusions. No one knows. Say only this. Your sons had to go to war, and mine did not. No one knows if it is a blessing or a curse. No one is wise enough to know. Only God knows.”

— Max Lucado

"The Old Man and the White Horse"
In the Eye of the Storm (1991)

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American clergyman and writer 1955

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