Sublime

John of the Cross says, “The Father spoke one Word, which was His Son, and this Word He always speaks in eternal silence, and in silence must It be heard by the soul.”7 In the Cherubinic Wanderer Angelus

Psalm 8, David marvels at God’s creation and the fact that man is given dominion over it.

SUFI MUSICIAN, HEALER, AND MYSTIC HAZRAT INAYAT KHAN

(Phil. 2:6–11)13 Paul is told that this hymn encompasses the very reality that the crucified Christ brings forth.

anyone who thinks love of God can be done without love of neighbor is deluded. We demonstrate that we love God only when we are loving others.

Anyone who in these hymns encounters the passion of Christ, and experiences in them the pain of the love of God for himself, knows that he himself is something different from what sorrow and the fear of death, the yoke of slavery and his masters have made and seek to make of him.

As one scholar put it, Bach the musician was indeed "a Christian who lived with the Bible." Besides being the baroque era's greatest organist and composer, and one of the most productive geniuses in the history of Western music, Bach was also a theologian who just happened to work with a keyboard.