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Thought for the Day 17 December 2008

Categorised as Thought of the Day and published Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
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Let us ever make it our prayer and our endeavour, that we may know the whole counsel of God and grow unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ; that all prejudice, and self-confidence, and hollowness, and unreality … may be put away from us under the light of Wisdom, and the fire of Faith and Love; till we see things as God sees them, with the judgment of His Spirit, and according to the mind of Christ.

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