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Thought for the Day 1 February 2010

Categorised as Thought of the Day and published Monday, February 1st, 2010
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Wisdom is the clear, calm, accurate vision, and comprehension of the whole course, the whole work of God; and though there is none who has it in its fulness but He who “searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of” the Creator, yet “by that Spirit” they are, in a measure, “revealed unto us.”

From the University sermon ‘Wisdom, as Contrasted with Faith and with Bigotry’ (1841) Click here for the full text (leaves site)