"Saint Augustine (354–430 AD), the towering intellectual of the early centuries of Christianity, was once trying to figure out the mystery of the Trinity while he walked along a beach. He came across a boy who was running to the sea and then back again with a bucket of water. Each time he got back to the beach with his bucketful of water, the boy poured it into a small hole in the sand.
"What are you doing?" Augustine asked. "I'm trying to put the ocean into this hole," replied the boy. "But that's impossible," retorted Augustine. "Just as impossible as trying to fit the infinity of God into your little mind," replied the boy before vanishing from his sight."
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