The Doctor: What You Don’t Like Says Nothing About That Which You Don’t Like

You see, any man who thinks that he can examine God, and having done so, dismiss Him, is just saying that he is a fool.  May I put that to you in the form of an illustration.  You will hear people, saying, sometimes, that they just see nothing in Beethoven’s music, but they think jazz is marvelous.  Now in saying that, they tell me nothing about Beethoven, but they do tell me a great deal about themselves!  They do not realize it of course; they think they are being clever.  But they are really just telling us all about themselves from the standpoint of a knowledge of music. – D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Romans Vol. 1, p. 388

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