THE world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil; It gathers to a greatness, like the ooze of oil Crushed. Why do men then now not reck his rod? Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared... Speak What We Feel: Not What We Ought to Say - Pàgina 31per Frederick Buechner - 2009 - 176 pàginesPrevisualització limitada - Sobre aquest llibre
| Harriet Monroe, Alice Corbin Henderson - 1923 - 706 pàgines
...beautiful sonnet, God's Grandeur: xlviii INTRODUCTION TO THE PRESENT EDITION The world is charged with grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from...the soil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod. And, for all this, nature is never spent — There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And... | |
| Jean Vanier - 2004 - 364 pàgines
...insects and hidden plants, all intertwined in one glorious whole. As Gerard Manley Hopkins writes, The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil. Men, women and children in the beauty of their being all reveal the power and greamess of the Word.... | |
| Charles Colson, Nancy Pearcey - 2004 - 660 pàgines
...Quartets. The spangled language of the Jesuit priest and poet Gerard Manley Hopkins calls us to worship: "The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil."37 Christians should also be familiar with contemporary poets such as Luci Shaw, John Leax, Paul... | |
| Owen F. Cummings - 2004 - 166 pàgines
...all kinds of wonderful ways. Despite the besmirching of scandal, in Gerard Manley Hopkins's words, The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining from shook foil.4 For one who loves the church, scandal is an invitation to deeper personal holiness and to developing... | |
| Joan Halifax - 2004 - 276 pàgines
...cloth of culture. However, in our world neither silence nor solitude are held to be of much value. "All is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toil;.../ And wears man's smudge and shares man's smell," wrote Gerard Manley Hopkins. Yet silence and solitude are the very basis for our engagement with the... | |
| Carol Gilbertson, Gregg Muilenburg - 246 pàgines
...Other" is capable of entering the finite particular: infinitiim capax finiti.W2 So Hopkins writes, "The world is charged with the grandeur of God. / It will flame out like shining from shook foil."103 In addition to the emphasis on profound particularity that poetry and Luther's theology share,... | |
| 2004 - 124 pàgines
...tracks remind me of Gerard Manley Hopkins's poem "God's Grandeur," part of which insists on intruding: Generations have trod, have trod, have trod; And all is seared with trade; bleared, smeared with toll: And wean man's smudge and shares man's smell: the soil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being... | |
| Peter Sharpe - 2004 - 400 pàgines
...recalls the Hopkinsian energy, rhythms, syntax, sentiment, and figuration of "God's Grandeur," in which, The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It will flame out, like shining shook from foil; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And though the last lights off... | |
| Harold W. Baillie, Timothy Casey - 2005 - 442 pàgines
...reflection on this possibility is the poem "God's Grandeur" by the Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins: The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It...the soil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod. And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And though... | |
| Michael Lloyd - 2008 - 390 pàgines
...— and the labour-pains — of the Spirit. Which is a good excuse to quote Gerard Manley Hopkins: The world is charged with the grandeur of God. It...the soil Is bare now, nor can foot feel, being shod. And for all this, nature is never spent; There lives the dearest freshness deep down things; And though... | |
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