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Thought for the Day 24 November 2009
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Knowledge must ever precede the exercise of the affections. We feel gratitude and love, we feel indignation and dislike, when we have the informations actually put before us which are to kindle those several emotions. We love our parents, as our parents, when we know them to be our parents; we must know concerning God, before we can feel love, fear, hope, or trust towards Him.
From An Essay in aid of a Grammar of Assent (1870) Click here for the full text (leaves site)
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