“God's truth and faithfulness "are a great deep." They resemble the ocean itself; always there — vast, fathomless, sublime, the same in its majesty, its inexhaustible fullness, yesterday, to-day, and forever; the same in calm and storm, by day and by night; changeless while generations come and pass; everlasting while ages are rolling away.”

—  Richard Fuller (minister)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 261.

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United States Baptist minister 1804–1876

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“God's truth and faithfulness "are a great deep."”

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