Quote of the Week

“We may very easily conceive wherein lies the difference. The knowledge of a thing is not in proportion to the extensiveness of the notions, or number of circumstances known, only. But it consists chiefly in the intensiveness of the idea. Thus it is not he that has heard a long description of the sweetness of honey that he can be said to have the greatest understanding of it. But he that has tasted. If a man should read whole volumes upon this one subject, the taste to honey, he would never get so lively an apprehension of it as he had that had tasted. . . . Now God has infused such a lively apprehension into the minds of the Godly of divine things, as if they had tasted. “ Jonathan Edwards, Sermons and Discourses: 1723–1729, WJE Online, Vol. 14. edwards.yale.edu