“We are not fundamentally free;
external circumstances are not in our hands, they are in God’s hands, the one
thing in which we are free is in our personal relationship to God. We are not
responsible for the circumstances we are in, but we are responsible for the way
we allow those circumstances to affect us; we can either allow them to get on
top of us, or we can allow them to transform us into what God wants us to be.” (Oswald Chambers, Conformed to His Image, 354 L)
