[Curious]

For myself, I didn't realise that when the Lords prayer says, 'deliver us from evil' it really meant, 'steep us in evil till we've learnt our lessons!'

There are some things we cannot change, like world events or being jailed for the last 20 or so years of our lives.(!) We need to make our peace within those, as WN's quote directs. Hopefully he followed his own advice when most relevant to himself!

Jabez prayed that he would have an easy and blessed life! God was happy with that, more than his brothers who did not make such a request.

In a certain context, like the story of Job, WN's words fit. There can be a purpose within our struggles and disappointments. The testimony here is that acknowledgement of this inevitable component of life can be misapplied and made into a reason to allow oneself to passively accept mistreatment from others. Eliminating all the scriptures about standing up for what is right and protecting the weak and vulnerable. It was even a poor application at the time WN spoke it. It's then gone on to help create leverage for abuse which the LC seem to be experts at doing.