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Tell me how it is that in this room there are three candles and but…

Quote byJohn Wesley · 1703–1791

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 285.

English (original)

Tell me how it is that in this room there are three candles and but one light, and I will explain to you the mode of the Divine existence.

— John Wesley

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