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Alfred North Whitehead Quotes: The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable.
         

The worship of God is not a rule of safety - it is an adventure of the spirit, a flight after the unattainable.


Alfred North Whitehead
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