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No man can really see God except through these human manifestations. If

we try to see God otherwise, we make for ourselves a hideous caricature

of Him and believe the caricature to be no worse than the original.

There is a story of an ignorant man who was asked to make an image of

the God Shiva, and who, after days of hard struggle, manufactured only

the image of a monkey. So whenever we try to think of God as He is in

His absolute perfection, we invariably meet with the most miserable

failure, because as long as we are men, we cannot conceive Him as

anything higher than man. The time will come when we shall transcend

our human nature and know Him as He is; but as long as we are men, we

must worship Him in man and as man. Talk as you may, try as you may,

you cannot think of God except as a man.

 

 

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