Quote#Wisdom
The main condition is that the spiritual ear should be open to…
Quote byJohn Campbell Shairp · 1819–1885
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Culture and Religion (1870), Lecture IV. "Hindrances to Spiritual Growth", p. 83.
English (original)
The main condition is that the spiritual ear should be open to overhear and patiently take in, and the will ready to obey that testimony which, I believe, God bears in every human heart, however dull, to those great truths which the Bible reveals. This, and not logic, is the way to grow in religious knowledge, to know that the truths of religion are not shadows, but deep realities.
— John Campbell Shairp
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