God who is faithful allows His friends to fall frequently into weakness only in order to remove from them any prop on which they might lean. It is precisely these props which our Lord wishes to take from them so that He alone will be their help and support.
Meister Eckhart (1260-1328)
We look down on our Wall Street friend and accuse him of being greedy and power hungry. What we don’t know it that the next market surprise may encourage him to look through the allure of mammon, while we have a harder time realizing that spiritual achievement has become our prop.
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