And this, too, is a universal law, that we shall know if we follow on to know: that the trial of our faith worketh patience, and patience experience, and we have so dim and vague an apprehension of Divine Realities, chiefly because we have made but little trial, and have not tasted and seen that the Lord is gracious.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Exodus"
G. A. Chadwick
For the knowledge of words is one thing, the knowledge of things, of Realities, is another.
"The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St. John, Vol. I"
Marcus Dods
It is, however, probable that Violet did not concern herself with this aspect of the matter, but she had led a sheltered life, and it was curiously disconcerting to find herself brought suddenly face to face with primitive Realities.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton