A Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil.
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Good must triumph over evil. It usually does in life and in any case it's bad for young people to believe it doesn't.
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The spot where God's triumph is achieved, God's victory over sin, over lawlessness, is the cross of Calvary- the cross on which the Son of God died. In that cross and through the cross the works of the devil were destroyed, and the One who conquered him is yet to bruise the serpent's head in the final triumph when He comes again, as recorded in prophecy.
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