"To ask that God’s love should be content with us as we are is to ask that God should cease to be God; because He is what He is,
His love must, in the nature of things, be impeded and repelled by certain stains in our present character
And because He already loves us He must labor to make us lovable."
We must allow ourselves to be changed if we would become what He has in mind. To stubbornly continue on at our pace and direction is to ignore the reality of his love and plans for our eternal welfare...
