“The moment we recognize God as supreme in power and infinitely good and loving toward all His intelligent creatures, that moment we admit the doctrine of universal and special providence.”

—  Josiah Gilbert Holland

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 279.

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