Quote#Nature
The Bible is like a wide and beautiful landscape seen afar off, dim…
Quote byThomas Chalmers · 1780–1847
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 317..
English (original)
The Bible is like a wide and beautiful landscape seen afar off, dim and confused; but a good telescope will bring it near, and spread out all its rocks and trees and flowers and v__ulant fields and winding rivers at one's very feet. That telescope is the Spirit's teaching.
— Thomas Chalmers
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