 | Henry Albert Stimson - Apostles' Creed - 1898 - 386 pages
...adjusted, but more often found essential when understood,-»-a witness that God is everywhere. "Earth 's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God ! But only he who sees takes off his shoes." So we come to man himself, — an animal, but so much more than an animal ; living on the earth and... | |
 | Elizabeth Barrett Browning - English poetry - 1899 - 386 pages
...little tremour of the blood The whole strong clamour of a vehement soul 820 Doth utter itself distinct. Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush...with God : But only he who sees, takes off his shoes ; Truth in The rest sit round it, and pluck blackberries, Aurora's And daub their natural faces unaware... | |
 | Mary Earle Hardy - 1900 - 250 pages
...depredators. MICKOSCOPIC SHELLS. Nothing imperfect or deficient left Of all that He created. MILTON. Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush...with God ; But only he who sees takes off his shoes. MRS. BROWNINO. 32 IV. MICROSCOPIC SHELLS. THE sand among the shells was brushed into a tray, and with... | |
 | Martha Capps Oliver - Nature - 1900 - 458 pages
...spirit at anchor lies, To break her moorings, if this could be, That I might sail on the Unknown Sea. Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush...with God; But only he who sees takes off his shoes. (g)rs. grooming 3n HE sea heard; and the deep, sad sea Throbbed with one bitter secret more, But set... | |
 | Thomas N. Hart - Religion - 1999 - 190 pages
...most, which the least, and why? 92 Chapter Six Is a Relationship with the Mystery Possible for Me? Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush...with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes. — Elizabeth Barren Browning We saw in the last chapter how intimate Jesus was with God. Is anything... | |
 | Chaim Stern - Body, Mind & Spirit - 2000 - 388 pages
...of Your name is found. The blade of grass, the simple flower, Bear witness to Your matchless power. Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God! But only he who sees, takes offhis shoes. Sir Thomas Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible sun within us. Browne Unknown... | |
 | Marilyn Perry - Education - 2000 - 228 pages
...interesting food for thought about our understanding and experience of God at work in our lives and world. Earth's crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God, but only [those] who see take off [their] shoes. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Aurora Leigh Bk VII Introduction... | |
 | David L. Larsen - Religion - 644 pages
...Doubleday, 1 986). Her most famous lines are: "Earth's crammed with heaven and every common bush aglow with God; but only he who sees, takes off his shoes." The romance of this couple is dramatized on stage and in the film Tiie Barretts ofWimpole Street. ll.J.... | |
 | Daniel Lanahan - Religion - 2001 - 148 pages
...poem "Aurora Leigh," the Victorian poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning gives poetic expression to this: Earth's crammed with heaven and every common bush afire with God; But only those who see take off their shoes, the rest sit round it and pluck blackberries. (adapted) In the... | |
 | William E. Phipps - Religion - 2002 - 234 pages
...English contemporaries. Reflecting on Moses' initiating religious experience, Elizabeth Browning wrote: Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush...only he who sees, takes off his shoes, The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.1" Although Darwin rejected some Christian doctrines, he carried out... | |
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