We had seen God in His splendors, heard the text that Nature renders. We had reached the naked soul of man.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Being with nature opens us up to divine experience.
Nature is not only all that is visible to the eye... it also includes the inner pictures of the soul.
We see God face to face every hour, and know the savor of Nature.
Man does find in Nature deliverance from himself, oblivion of his past, with peace and purity!
The Son of God took our nature, and in it took upon himself to teach us by both word and example even to the point of death, thus binding us to himself through love.
The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.
God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.
The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world... to see clearly is poetry, prophecy and religion all in one.
God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.
Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.