Quotemeal: Apr. 9th, 2018

Monday, April 9, 2018

"Concepts create idols, only wonder grasps anything."
— Gregory of Nyssa

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"We cannot bear sin - when it is near us, we feel like a wretch chained to a rotting carcass; we groan to be free of the hateful thing."
— Charles H. Spurgeon —
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— Stephen Charnock —
"I have been tortured with longing to believe ... and the yearning grows stronger the more cogent the intellectual difficulties stand in the way."
— Fyodor Dostoevsky —
"God has wisely kept us in the dark concerning future events and reserved for himself the knowledge of them, that he may train us up in a dependence upon himself..."
— Matthew Henry —

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Illustration of Gregory of Nyssa — "Concepts create idols, only wonder grasps anything."

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