Quote#God & Faith
Our sensorium is that essential medium between the divine and human…
Quote byEthan Allen · 1738–1789
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Reason: The Only Oracle Of Man (1784), Ch. V, Section II - Containing Observations on the Providence and Agency of God, as it Respects the Natural and Moral World, with Strictures on Revelation in General.
English (original)
Our sensorium is that essential medium between the divine and human mind, through which God reveals to man the knowledge of nature, and is our only door of correspondence with God or with man.
— Ethan Allen
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