O heavenly Father, you have filled the world with beauty:
Open our eyes to behold your gracious hand in all your works;
that, rejoicing in your whole creation, we may learn to serve you with gladness;
for the sake of him through whom all things were made, your Son Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen.
Book of Common Prayer
O living Spirit, O falling of God-dew,
O Grace which dost console us and renew,
O vital light, O breath of angelhood,
O generous ministration of things good,
Creator of the visible, and best
Upholder of the great unmanifest
Power infinitely wise, new boon sublime
Of science and of art, constraining might,
In whom I breathe, live, speak, rejoice, and write, --
Be with us in all places, for all time!Manuel Philes, 14th Century, tr. E.B. Browning
Earth's crammed with heaven,
And every common bush afire with God:
But only he who sees, takes off his shoes,
The rest sit round it, and pluck blackberries ....E.B. Browning
The world is charged with the grandeur of God.
G.M. Hopkins
Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts; the whole earth is full of his glory.
The Seraphs, Isaiah 6
For when your judgments, O Lord, are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn justice.
Isaiah 26
For what you see and hear depends a good deal on where you are standing: it also depends on what sort of person you are.
C.S. Lewis, The Magician's Nephew, ch. 10
For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face.
Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known,
but now faith, hope, and love abide, these three;
and the greatest of these is love.
Apostle Paul, 1 Corinthians 13
I was a foreigner [Greek, xenos], and you welcomed me ....
Jesus, Matthew 25:35