If you don't believe it you won't understand it.
To dye oneself with paints in order to have a rosier or a paler complexion is a lying counterfeit.
Understanding is the reward of faith.
Give what You command and command what You will.
God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.
Because God has made us for Himself, our hearts are restless until they rest in Him.