Imperfect Stammerings

“Here are we too prone to think highly of our knowledge; but when we arrive in yonder world of light, to see Him (Lord God) as He is, we shall be ashamed of the highest conceptions we had of Him, and of our most labored attempts to express them, while we were imprisoned in this distant land.  Then we shall say with the queen of Sheba, “Behold the half, the thousandth part, was not told us!”  In the meantime, He is pleased to accept our imperfect stammerings, to assist our feeble inquiries, and does not disdain (as He justly might) to hear us take His name upon our polluted lips!” – John Newton