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My God, my God, thou art a direct God, may I not say a literal God, a…

Quote byJohn Donne · 1572–1631

Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Expostulation 19.

English (original)

My God, my God, thou art a direct God, may I not say a literal God, a God that wouldst be understood literally and according to the plain sense of all that thou sayest? But thou art also...a figurative, a metaphorical God too.

— John Donne

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