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[Stuart Hampton]

D.H. Lawrence 
 





   The Hands of God

 
  
    
 It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God.  
 But it is a much more fearful thing to fall out of them.  
    
 Did Lucifer fall through knowledge?  
 oh, then, pity him, pity him that plunge!  
    
5 Save me, O God, from falling into the ungodly knowledge  
 of myself as I am without God.  
 Let me never know, O God  
 let me never know what I am or should be  
 when I have fallen out of your hands, the hands of the living God.  
    
10 That awful and sickening endless sinking, sinking  
 through the slow, corruptive levels of disintegrative knowledge  
 when the self has fallen from the hands of God,  
 and sinks, seething and sinking, corrupt  
 and sinking still, in depth after depth of disintegrative consciousness  
15 sinking in the endless undoing, the awful katabolism into the abyss!  
 even of the soul, fallen from the hands of God!  
    
 Save me from that, O God!  
 Let me never know myself apart from the living God! 
 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Harry Wainwright [mailto:h-wainwright at charter.net]
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 5:11 AM
To: Order Ecumenical Community
Subject: RE: [Oe List ...] Quote info


Colleagues,

The way I remember it is: "It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of
the living God."  Try one of the Bible search sites or quote sites.  I have
not loaded my Bible program since having my laptop redone last year.

You could try http://www.quotationspage.com/ or http://www.quoteland.com/ or
Barlett for older quotes at http://www.bartleby.com/100/.

I did not have much luck but Byron and Shakespeare were found.

To reply to Jon's question about "fear": the meaning here and other places
and other places for Biblical quotes, e.g., "The fear of the Lord is the
beginning of wisdom." - has to do with Rudolph Otto and others including D.
H. Lawrence has to do with what we might call "awesome" or "overwhelming"
rather than scared.

Peace,
Harry

-----Original Message-----
From: OE-bounces at wedgeblade.net [mailto:OE-bounces at wedgeblade.net]On Behalf
Of David Dunn
Sent: Friday, June 25, 2004 2:22 AM
To: oe at wedgeblade.net
Subject: [Oe List ...] Quote info

Hi people,

Does any one know the exact quote that goes something like, "It's a fearful
thing to be grasped by a loving God?' Who said it or wrote it.

Thanks for any leads.

David


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