bs2 · @bsmall2
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> The immediate reaction of human nature to the religious vision is .. It is the one element in human experience which persistently shows an upward trend. It fades and then recurs.
wrote or in the book . The chapter is in the collecion of essays . The essay keeps coming to mind along with writings by ( and as ). They wrote ..

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bs2 · @bsmall2
196 followers · 3346 posts · Server mstdn.jp

> I neglect God and His angels for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door. I talk on in the same posture of praying, eyes lifted up, knees bowed down, as though I prayed... a noise in mine ear, a light in mine eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy, a chimera in my brain troubles me in my prayer." From The Art of Letters, too
- gutenberg.org/ebooks/8077

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