To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is
the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information
within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With
our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person
must puzzle it out for himself or herself.Every hardship; every joy;
every temptation is a challenge of the spirit; that the human soul may
prove itself.
It is through solving problems correctly that we grow spiritually. We
are never given a burden unless we have the capacity to overcome it.
If a great problem is set before you, this merely indicates that you
have the great inner strength to solve a great problem. There is never
really anything to be discouraged about, because difficulties are
opportunities for inner growth, and the greater the difficulty the greater
the opportunity for growth.The great chain of necessity wherewith we
are bound has divine significance; and nothing happens which has not
some service in working out the sublime destiny of the human soul.
