“O majesty unspeakable and dread!
Wert thou less mighty than Thou art,
Thou wert, O Lord, too great for our belief,
Too little for our heart.”

— Frederick William Faber

The Greatness of God.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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British hymn writer and theologian 1814–1863

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