“And so among the ruins of our pride, we grow to be loving children of the Most High.”
William Mountford (1816–1885) English Unitarian preacher and author
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 331.
“If I were going to begin practicing the presence of God for the first time today, it would help to begin by admitting the three most terrible truths of our existence: that we are so ruined, and so loved, and in charge of so little.”
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Franz Brentano (1838–1917) Austrian philosopher
Was klein ist im Beginn wird oft am Ende überaus groß sein. Und so geschieht es, das wer im Anfange auch nur um ein Weniges von der Wahrheit abweicht, im Verlauf immer weiter und weiter und zu tausendmal größern Irrthümer fortgeführt wird.
On the Several Senses of Being in Aristotle (1862)
J.C. Ryle (1816–1900) Anglican bishop
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 470.
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