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War and the Christian Faith

The Incredible Things

We never can be wise—in us there is too much of imperfection and bewilderment, as of the blind man opening his eyes and seeing men as trees walking, for that—but perhaps we shall begin to be wise when we realise that there are many things in Heaven and earth that we have got to assent to and confess, though we do not understand them, and never shall understand them so long as we walk in this vesture of mortality.

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