“I know that mystery in the works of God is only another name for my ignorance. The moment, therefore, that I become humble, all becomes right.”

— Richard Cecil (clergyman)

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 31.
Context: I cannot look around me without being struck with the analogy observable in the works of God. I find the Bible written in the style of His other books of Creation and Providence. The pen seems in the same hand. I see it, indeed, write at times mysteriously in each of these books; thus I know that mystery in the works of God is only another name for my ignorance. The moment, therefore, that I become humble, all becomes right.

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British Evangelical Anglican priest and social reformer 1748–1810

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