I would no longer attempt, with the psalmist, ‘to set God before my face’. I would see him as the underlying cause of my thinking, especially of those thoughts in which I tried to think of him. I would dare to hope that sometimes my thought would become diaphanous, so that there should be some perception of the divine cause shining through the created effect, as a deep pool, settling into a clear tranquility, permits us to see the spring in the bottom of it from which its waters rise.
(from ‘The Glass of Vision’ by Austin Farrer)
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