To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him. (Samuel Butler (novelist))

To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.

Samuel Butler (novelist)

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