Quote#God & Faith
It is a very comfortable faith to hold that "whatever is, is best,"…
Quote bySophia Jex-Blake · 1840–1912
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Medical Women: A Thesis and a History (1872), (1st edition 1872).
English (original)
It is a very comfortable faith to hold that "whatever is, is best," not only in the dispensations of Providence, but in the social order of daily life; but it is a faith which is perhaps best preserved by careful avoidance of too much inquiry into facts.
— Sophia Jex-Blake
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