For there is a God.
For there is a God, and He’s here, immediate, accessible. I don’t
hold with those thinkers who believe in this time He is farther away
—that in the Middle Ages, for instance, He was closer. He is equally
accessible now, not only in works of art or in the glories of a particular
religious service, or in the light, the aftermath that follows
the dark night of the soul, but in the lowest forms of life, He moves
and has His being. --Theodore Roethke
hold with those thinkers who believe in this time He is farther away
—that in the Middle Ages, for instance, He was closer. He is equally
accessible now, not only in works of art or in the glories of a particular
religious service, or in the light, the aftermath that follows
the dark night of the soul, but in the lowest forms of life, He moves
and has His being. --Theodore Roethke


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