“Praise lies upon a higher plain than thanksgiving. When I give thanks, my thoughts still circle around myself to some extent. But in praise my soul ascends to self-forgetting adoration, seeing and praising only the majesty and power of God, His grace and redemption.”
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Ole Kristian O. Hallesby was a Lutheran neo-orthodox pietist who taught at the Free Faculty of Theology from 1909 to 1952.
He was an outspoken opponent of the Nazi occupation of Norway and was for a time detained at Grini concentration camp.
Hallesby wrote 67 books, mostly on theology and ethics, but is known for devotional writings.