When we understand the outside of things, we think we have them. Yet t…

George MacDonald
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When we understand the outside of things, we think we have them. Yet the Lord puts his things in subdefined, suggestive shapes, yielding no satisfactory meaning to the mere intellect, but unfolding themselves to the conscience and heart. ✨ George Macdonald (2012). Unspoken Sermons Series I, II, and III, p.113, Simon and Schuster
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