“There are regions beyond the most nebulous outskirts of matter; but no regions beyond the Divine goodness. We may conceive of tracts where there are no worlds, but not of any where there us no God of mercy.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 274.

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