Would a soul continually eye His everlasting tenderness and compassion...[then] it could not bear an hour's absence from Him; whereas now, perhaps, it cannot watch with him one hour.
John Owen (2001). “Communion with God”, p.32, Sovereign Grace Publishers,
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