“What I affirm is the intuition that where God's presence is no longer a tenable supposition and where His absence is no longer a felt, indeed overwhelming weight, certain dimensions of thought and creativity are no longer attainable. And I would vary Yeats's axiom so as to say: no man can read fully, can answer answeringly to the aesthetic, whose "nerve and blood" are at peace in sceptical rationality, are now at home in immanence and verification. We must read as if.” IfsMenHomeCertainFeltAnswersCreativityBloodWeightIntuitionAbsenceDimensionsNervesOverwhelmingAestheticRationalityVaryAxiomsGod's PresenceSuppositionVerificationYeats Book:Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say? Source: Real Presences: Is There Anything in What We Say?
“Dear friends, have you begun to sing the "new song? " Loved ones are singing it in the heavenly home, and we may sing it here; and by and by we shall join them, gaze with them on the risen, glorified Lord, and our voices will mingle in the "new song" "unto Him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in His own blood, to Him be glory and dominion for ever and ever".” MayHomeSongVoiceSinLordBloodSingingGloryDearHeavenlyLoved OnesDominionRisenDear FriendNew SongsHeavenly Home Author:Abbott Eliot Kittredge