We shall be made truly wise if we be made content content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understandthe habit of mind which theologians call, and rightly, faith in God. (Charles Kingsley)

We shall be made truly wise if we be made content content, too, not only with what we can understand, but content with what we do not understandthe habit of mind which theologians call, and rightly, faith in God.

Charles Kingsley

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