Tongues of Fire: An Anthology of Religious and Poetic ExperienceKaren Armstrong |
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... human skill and insight provide comfort for all who dwell therein . But sometimes it forgets that God is greater than man's ideas of Him ; it thinks that its human structures are impregnable , and this must bring about an insecurity as ...
... human skill and insight provide comfort for all who dwell therein . But sometimes it forgets that God is greater than man's ideas of Him ; it thinks that its human structures are impregnable , and this must bring about an insecurity as ...
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... human evil . How can such evil be explained by or absorbed into a religious context ? Human evil can make the idea of a beneficent God look like a futile myth , and the religious man has to struggle very hard to make sense of such ...
... human evil . How can such evil be explained by or absorbed into a religious context ? Human evil can make the idea of a beneficent God look like a futile myth , and the religious man has to struggle very hard to make sense of such ...
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... human charity His human wants , beheld with wondering awe Their fleeting visitant . The mountaineer , Encountering on some dizzy precipice That spectral form , deemed that the Spirit of wind With lightning eyes , and eager breath , and ...
... human charity His human wants , beheld with wondering awe Their fleeting visitant . The mountaineer , Encountering on some dizzy precipice That spectral form , deemed that the Spirit of wind With lightning eyes , and eager breath , and ...
Contents
Genesis | 20 |
From The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | 38 |
Heal me my | 40 |
Copyright | |
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beauty beloved birds breath Camelot canst CHARLES CAUSLEY Christ Christian comfort CZESLAW MILOSZ D. H. LAWRENCE dark David Goldstein death divine doth dream earth ecstasy eternal eyes face fear feel fire flame GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS glory green hand happy hath hear heard heart heaven holy Hopkins Lady of Shalott light live look Lord meditation mind moon MOSES IBN EZRA mysterious mystic nature never night o'er pain Paradise peace Penguin Peter Levi poem poet poetic poetry prayer pure R. A. Nicholson R. S. THOMAS reality religion religious experience rose round sense shadow shine sight silence sing sleep solitude SOLOMON IBN GABIROL song soul speak spirit stars Sufi sweet tell thee things thou art thought thro tongue Transcending translated by David tree vision vocation voice WILLIAM WORDSWORTH wind wings Wordsworth