Quote#God & Faith
Ah, my friends, we must look out and around to see what God is like.…
Quote byCharles Kingsley · 1819–1875
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 257..
English (original)
Ah, my friends, we must look out and around to see what God is like. It is when we persist in turning our eyes inward, and prying curiously over our own imperfections, that we learn to make God after our own image, and fancy that our own darkness and hardness of heart are the patterns of His light and love.
— Charles Kingsley
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