Status Updates From The Bible and Poetry

“Just as good fear makes us sensitive to the power and the glory of he who infinitely transcends us, so wonder prepares us for everything that exceeds us, in an impulse of questioning, astonishment, and admiration.”

“The Word, divine language and the source of human language and of the poetry that perfects it, put into operation, while living among us, the resources and beauty of words.”

“The praise that inflames the psalmists leads them toward God and at the same time toward his creation, toward an immense alterity transcending them. Their self is transfigured thanks to the wonder that seizes them before the Creator and before all that he continues to create and to sustain. They give themselves to the world.”

“Poetry, even profane poetry, awakens “a feeling of presence,” and allows us to draw near to the being of what it evokes. At a completely different level and if we are able to hear it, the Bible resounds with a divine Presence whose authority is in need of nothing to make itself felt.”