"When I say God it is poetry and……" — John Haynes Holmes

When I say God it is poetry and not theology. Nothing that… - John Haynes Holmes

"When I say God it is poetry and not theology. Nothing that any theologian has written about God has helped me much, but everything the poets have written about flowers and birds and skies and seas and saviors of the race, and God - whoever He may be - has at one time or another reached my soul!...The theologians gather dust upon the shelves of my library but the poets are stained with my fingers and blotted by my tears."

— John Haynes Holmes

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