“There is, in the end, the letting go.”

Source: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia

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Paraphrased variant: Man can certainly flee from God... but he cannot escape him. He can certainly hate God and be hateful to God … but he cannot change into its opposite the eternal love of God which triumphs even in his hate.
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