"And then think of the innumerable multitudes of men now living! We men speak of its being a work of patience to be a school-teacher for little children; and then think God who must be the school-teacher for this innumerable multitude! What patience! And then what makes the tax upon patience infinitely greater is that where God is school-teacher all the children suffer more or less from the delusion that they are big grown-up men, a delusion from which the lilies and birds are quite free – and surely just for this reason, that absolute obedience comes so easily to them. ‘If on top of everything else,’ as human school-teacher might say, ‘if on top of everything else the children got the notion that they were grown-up men, one must lose all patience and must despair; for that would be something no man could endure.’ No, surely no man could endure it, only the God of patience can. P. 342"
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