“I could never fear a God who kept a hell prison-house. No, not though he flung me there because I refused. There is a power stronger than such a one; and it is possible to walk unscathed even in the burning furnace.”

—  James Anthony Froude , book The Nemesis of Faith

Letter II
The Nemesis of Faith (1849)

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