3 responses to “Address powerful goodness”
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I, too, was curious about Ben’s “Powerful Goodness” so I searched on the term. Here’s what Ben may have been referring to: “O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me.”
This stirs more curiosity because purportedly Ben eschewed religion, but this sounds like he is “addressing” a deity in prayer. Was he anti-religion but still deeply spiritual?
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P.S. Quite obviously I am addressing your blogpost because it surfaced in my search on the term “powerful goodness,” just now.
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Folks,
Franklin was deeply spiritual, never doubting a guiding hand…he was dissatisfied with secularism…his auto biography is accessible, and a wonderful and en lighting read, highly recommended.
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