Act 1
The Devil and the Good Lord (1951)
“I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.”
Quoted in Henry More: The Rational Theology of a Cambridge Plattonist (1962) by Rabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, page 100.
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