More from Night of the Confessor (read more about that book here). This also is going into my quote journal.
God is not "something near" (first, because He is not a "thing"; and second, because He is infinitely distant in His incomprehensibility, unfathomability, and unobjectifiableness), but rather God is nearness itself. God is light, declared Saint Bonaventure, repeating the well-known expression in Scripture, and he went on to say that when we look we do not see the "light" itself, but we see all things in the light. Rather than seeking God in the world, we can contemplate the world in God, in the divine light, without mistaking the world for God, or God for the world in the process.
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