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The Four Gospels: The Pocket Canons Edition The Four Gospels: The Pocket Canons Edition by A.N. Wilson
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“All theology is a doomed but necessary attempt to express the inexpressible. God is the elusive mystery we try to capture and convey in language, but how can that ever be done? If the word water is not itself drinkable, how can the words we use to express the mystery of God be themselves absolute? They are metaphors, analogies, figures of speech, yet religious people have slaughtered and condemned each other over these experimental uncertainties. Our glory and agony as humans is that we long to find words that will no longer be words, mere signifiers, but the very experience they are trying to signify; and our tragedy is that we never succeed. This is the anguish that lies at the heart of all religion, because, though our words can describe our thirst for the absolute, they can never satisfy it.”
Richard Holloway, The Four Gospels: The Pocket Canons Edition
“Psalm 139 and Jeremiah 29:11”
Bible N T Gospels Selections, The Four Gospels: The Pocket Canons Edition