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intelligence is beneficial, and working in harmony with natural laws;
in doing this he neither denies nor hinders faith.—
Ibid
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1036. Should the Lord work a miracle to restore the wonderful
machinery which human beings have impaired through their own care-
lessness and inattention and their indulgence of appetite and passions,
by doing the very things that the Lord has told them they should not
do, he would be ministering to sin, which is the transgression of his
own law.—
Unpublished Testimonies, May 19, 1897
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1037. The relations between God and each soul are as distinct
and full as though there were not another soul for whom he gave his
beloved Son.... Keep your wants, your joys, your sorrows, your cares,
and your fears before God.... The Lord is very pitiful and of tender
mercy. His heart of love is touched by our sorrows, and even by our
utterance of them.... Nothing that in any way concerns our peace is
too small for him to notice. There is no chapter in our experience too
dark for him to read; there is no perplexity too difficult for him to
unravel. No calamity can befall the least of his children, no anxiety
harass the soul, no joy cheer, no sincere prayer escape the lips, of
which our Heavenly Father is unobservant, or in which he takes no
immediate interest. “He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up
their wounds.”—
Steps to Christ, 117
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