Quote#Heart
If there is a sentence in the creed which we cannot say together,…
Quote byJames Hamilton · 1814–1867
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 112..
English (original)
If there is a sentence in the creed which we cannot say together, there is nothing in Christ which we would wish to be different; and heresies of the heart are quite as dangerous, and to me as estranging, as errors in the head.
— James Hamilton
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