Quotation by Laurence Sterne

Strange!—that we should only begin to think of GOD with comfort,—when with joy and comfort we can think of nothing else.
Laurence Sterne (1713–1768), British author, clergyman. Sermons, sermon 20, "The prodigal son" (1766), ed. Melvyn New, University Press of Florida (1996).
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