Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

The viewing of such a spectacle fills the observer with an intense feeling which seems indeed to choke him and every utterance to that feeling seems stilted an unworthy and yet he feels he is doing his duty to himself if he is silent.(HT)It is at such times that one feels most deeply reverent. Per haps that is why an utterance of such a feeling falls flat. True reverence for God is not to be uttered. Any discussion of worship for the Creator is cheapening. This is true also of love and friendship.(HT)Thought should be purely