Our test is infallible. Whatever view of reality deepens our sense of the tremendous issues of life in the world wherein we move, is for us nearer the truth than any view which diminishes that sense. β¨ William Ralph Inge (1899). Christian Mysticism: Considered in Eight Lectures Delivered Before the University of Oxford
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