"If my God's ways seem strange, mysterious and difficult to me, and if the wishes I cherish sink quietly into the sea of worries, if the day that has brought me nothing but pain and suffering passes dull and heavy, then I can remember one thing: that God never makes a mistake!"
(Herbert Sack | Written in Stalingrad in 1943)
"When the Lord's thoughts are too high for me, the wells of His grace are too deep, when all supports are shaking helplessly, I lack strength and patience, when my gaze can no longer find a goal in anxious, tearful vigil, a spark of faith nevertheless announces that God never makes a mistake!"
(Herbert Sack | Written in Stalingrad in 1943)
"When my heart trembles in despair over unresolved questions, when I want to despair of God's love because ignorance rises, then I can gently place all my weary longing into God's hands and say with tears that God never makes a mistake."
(Herbert Sack | Written in Stalingrad in 1943)
"So be still, my heart, and let everything earthly and fleeting pass away, in the light above you will see that the paths he shows are good. And if you have to miss what you love most, even if it goes through cold, dark night, hold on to this blessed knowledge: that God never makes a mistake!"
(Herbert Sack | Written in Stalingrad in 1943)
"If my God's ways seem strange, mysterious and difficult to me, and if the wishes I cherish sink quietly into the sea of worries, if the day that has brought me nothing but pain and suffering passes dull and heavy, then I can remember one thing: that God never makes a mistake!"
(Herbert Sack | Written in Stalingrad in 1943)
"When the Lord's thoughts are too high for me, the wells of His grace are too deep, when all supports are shaking helplessly, I lack strength and patience, when my gaze can no longer find a goal in anxious, tearful vigil, a spark of faith nevertheless announces that God never makes a mistake!"
(Herbert Sack | Written in Stalingrad in 1943)
"When my heart trembles in despair over unresolved questions, when I want to despair of God's love because ignorance rises, then I can gently place all my weary longing into God's hands and say with tears that God never makes a mistake."
(Herbert Sack | Written in Stalingrad in 1943)
"So be still, my heart, and let everything earthly and fleeting pass away, in the light above you will see that the paths he shows are good. And if you have to miss what you love most, even if it goes through cold, dark night, hold on to this blessed knowledge: that God never makes a mistake!"
(Herbert Sack | Written in Stalingrad in 1943)
Thoughts about 18. June
The Bible says: "He lets his sun rise on the bad and on the good and rains on the just and the unjust."
God does not interfere with the function of the laws of nature. They have their own course and are unchangeable. Otherwise we cannot rely on them. Likewise, God makes no distinction between good and bad people. Both can affect illness and death equally. I have to submit not only to the laws of nature but also to the spiritual laws. And it depends on my choice of good or bad whether my path leads upwards and is crowned with true success or downwards to failure and defeat.