Quote#God & Faith
There are regions beyond the most nebulous outskirts of matter; but…
Quote byJames Waddel Alexander · 1804–1859
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Consolation: in Discourses on Select Topics, Addressed to the Suffering People of God (New York: Charles Scribner, 1853), pp. 27–28..
English (original)
There are regions beyond the most nebulous outskirts of matter; but no regions beyond the divine goodness. We may conceive of tracts where there are no worlds, but not of any where there us no God of mercy.
— James Waddel Alexander
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