To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we sho…

Samuel Butler
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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 (1951). Samuel Butler's notebooks
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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 (1951). Samuel Butler's notebooks

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