Quote#God & Faith
The idea of a God we infer from our experimental dependence on…
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)
The idea of a God we infer from our experimental dependence on something superior to ourselves in wisdom, power and goodness, which we call God; our senses discover to us the works of God which we call nature, and which is a manifest demonstration of his invisible essence.
— Ethan Allen
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