Polished steel will not shine in the dark. No more can reason , however refined or cultivated, shine efficaciously but as it reflects the light of Divine truth shed from heaven.
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John Foster Quote
“Let the oracles of inspiration be cited continually, both as authority and illustration, in a manner that shall make the mind instantly refer each expression that is introduced to the venerable book whence it is taken; but let our part of religious language be simply ours, and let those oracles retain their characteristic form of expression unimitated, unparodied to the end of time.”
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