Henry Alford (1810–1871) English churchman, theologian, textual critic, scholar, poet, hymnodist, and writer
The New Testament for English Readers (1865), Romans 8:26, p. 73, footnote.
“God attracts us to Him by instincts, and desires, and aspirations after a happiness higher than sense, and more enduring, more changeless, than this mortal life. God speaks to us articulately in the stirring life of nature, and in the silence of our own being.”
Source: Towards Evening (1889), p. 158
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