“God works in mysterious, inefficient, and breathtakingly cruel...” – Penn, Penn & Teller: Bullshit! ... TV Quotes Database

God works in mysterious, inefficient, and breathtakingly cruel ways.

this statement is a rebuke to the famous assertion by William Cowper: "God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm."

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