never-to-be-exhausted

Updated: May 28, 2025

We loved that never-attainable Will-o'-the-Wisp, "Truth," for its own dear Bohemian sake; so, guided by Fancy and Fantasy, we made frequent inroads into the boundless land where unknown forces pick up our poor dear little conception of the Impossible, and use it as the starting-point of never-to-be-exhausted possibilities.

Felix Moscheles - In Bohemia with Du Maurier: The First Of A Series Of Reminiscences

If we take that antithesis, then, I think we may turn it in two or three directions, like a light in a man's hand; and look at it as suggesting I. First, the goodness already disposed 'wrought before the sons of men'; and that 'laid up, yet to be manifested. Now, that distinction just points to the old familiar but yet never-to-be-exhausted thought of the inexhaustibleness of the divine nature.

Alexander Maclaren - Expositions of Holy Scripture: Psalms