#Barthelemy vcan Eyck

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

The beginning of the Gospel According to John from a Book of House illustrated by Barthelemy van Eyck (Provence, c 1440). The Pierpoint Morgan Library, New York, MS M.358: Folio.13

[Robert Scott Horton]

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“Only at the periphery of our lives, where we and our understanding of God alike are undone, can we understand bewilderment as occasioning another way of knowing.” ― Belden C. Lane, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality

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“Simone Weil was surely right when she asked, “Isn’t it the greatest possible disaster, when you are wrestling with God, not to be beaten?” God’s invitation to the spiritual life is a call to the high-risk venture of being loved more fiercely than we ever might have dreamed.” ― Belden C. Lane, The Solace of Fierce Landscapes: Exploring Desert and Mountain Spirituality