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As an inmate of a concentration camp, Corrie Ten Boom heard a commotion, and saw a short distance away a prison guard mercilessly beating a female prisoner. __hat can we do for these people?_ Corrie whispered. __how them that love is greater,_ Betsie replied. In that moment, Corrie realized her sister__ focus was on the prison guard, not the victim she was watching. Betsie saw the world through a different lens. She considered the actions of greatest moral gravity to be the ones we originate, not the ones we suffer.
Terryl L. Givens The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life
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As an inmate of a concentration camp, Corrie Ten Boom heard a commotion, and saw a short distance away a prison guard mercilessly beating a female prisoner. __hat can we do for these people?_ Corrie whispered. __how them that love is greater,_ Betsie replied. In that moment, Corrie realized her sister__ focus was on the prison guard, not the victim she was watching. Betsie saw the world through a different lens. She considered the actions of greatest moral gravity to be the ones we originate, not the ones we suffer.
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The God Who Weeps: How Mormonism Makes Sense of Life

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