daylight-plain

Updated: September 19, 2025

All this philosophical travail of two thousand years and so many doubts and darknesses! A world athirst for preaching, and nothing simple or clear to preach when once the miracle-child of Bethlehem had been dispossessed. And now it is daylight-plain to me that in the simplest act of loving self-surrender there is the germ of all faith, the essence of all lasting religion.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - The History of David Grieve