"What are the consequences of rejecting divinely appointed images? Hopeless and heart-destroying doubt caused by the undue exaltation of humanity: in other words, creature, instead of divine, worship. We are so constituted that images we must have: our minds cannot reach God's throne without the help of corporeal things. Agnosticism has said it. We cannot love what we do not know, and is not God unknowable? Halting formularies say it when they point to matter, which God has glorified, as inglorious."
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St John Damascene on Holy Images (1898)
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Mary Helen Agnes Allies
Mary Helen Agnes Allies (2 February 1852 – 27 January 1927) was an English historian.
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