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To: everyone

Found a germane quote by preacher Charles Spurgeon, well loved and respected Baptist of the 1800s. He says things ever so much better than I do:

“Is it not written, “The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity”? To liken our thoughts to the great thoughts of God, would be a gross absurdity. Would you bring your candle to show the sun? Your nothingness to replenish the eternal all? It is better to be silent before the Lord, than to dream of supplementing what he has spoken. The Word of the Lord is to the conceptions of men as a garden to a wilderness. Keep within the covers of the sacred book, and you are in the land which floweth with milk and honey; why seek to add to it the desert sands?”


71 posted on 03/11/2012 6:01:28 PM PDT by Persevero (Homeschooling for Excellence since 1992)
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To: Persevero
"“Is it not written, “The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity”? To liken our thoughts to the great thoughts of God, would be a gross absurdity. Would you bring your candle to show the sun? Your nothingness to replenish the eternal all? It is better to be silent before the Lord, than to dream of supplementing what he has spoken. The Word of the Lord is to the conceptions of men as a garden to a wilderness. Keep within the covers of the sacred book, and you are in the land which floweth with milk and honey; why seek to add to it the desert sands?”"

Amen!

82 posted on 03/11/2012 6:14:47 PM PDT by mitch5501 ("make your calling and election sure: for if ye do these things ye shall never fall")
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