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He who never looks up to a living God, to a heavenly presence, loses…

Quote byJames Freeman Clarke · 1810–1888

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 563..

English (original)

He who never looks up to a living God, to a heavenly presence, loses the power of perceiving that presence, and the universe slowly turns into a dead machine, clashing and grinding on, without purpose or end. If the light within us be darkness, how great is that darkness!

— James Freeman Clarke

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