【正确答案】正确答案： God Only Helps Those Who Help Themselves When we think about the saying "God only helps those who help themselves" , with all due respect to God, we may simply change it to "The only help we can get is from ourselves". And this is obviously telling the truth, rather than a lie. The first thing we need to clarify is that inequality at the starting point is a given fact, and all the discussion would only make sense when we acknowledge it. Comparing the chances of a student from a remote mountainous village with one who enjoys the high-quality education in big cities would not produce a meaningful result for our discussion. When we believe in " God helps those who help themselves" , we mean students from a remote mountainous village could gain a bigger chance to enter a college when they help themselves, trying their best to achieve their goals. If they fail, they will still gain something, maybe not in the forms of their original expectations, but in other forms, such as a better understanding about the importance of education. And then, when they cannot realize their dreams, they may have a different idea about what to be expected from their children, and gradually, changes will come. Migrant workers may not be able to have the life of their urban counterparts, but they can use the information they get, or the personal skills they gain when they return to their homelands. The same rationale here can also be applied to the students in big cities, whose chances of being admitted to a university are more than their peers in the rural areas, but as to the quality of the university education for each individual, chances still come from nothing but the efforts made by the students themselves. So the first thing we have to understand is that help can only be used to change something, that is, by its very nature, different from the very beginning. But we cannot deny the existence of help, in one way or another, that could be offered by others. And it naturally leads to our second point, which is that in any given situation, all the help we get from other sources can only make difference when combined with our own efforts. The students in big cities can easily afford some extra tuition offered by others, but still, in order to make this extra help to work, the students in question also need to make more efforts. So, help from other sources cannot be used to deny the truthfulness of the saying that" God only helps those who help themselves". All in all, when we see things from their given starting point, and understand the efforts required for anyone who have access to help provided by others, we will get the conclusion that: God only helps those who help themselves.