“The mistake we make is to look for a source of comfort in ourselves: self-contemplation, instead of gazing upon God. In other words, we look for comfort precisely where comfort never can be.”

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 477.

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British writer and theologian 1816–1853

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