Quotation by Marcus Minucius Felix

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God cannot be seen: he is too bright for sight; nor grasped: he is too pure for touch; nor measured: for he is beyond all sense, infinite, measureless, his dimension known to himself alone.

Marcus Minucius Felix

Marcus Minucius Felix (2nd or 3rd cen. A.D.), Roman Christian apologist. Octavius, 18. 8, trans. by G.H. Rendell.

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