As the Sun at Noon

He brought light out of darkness, not out of a lesser light, and he can bring thee summer out of winter, though thou hast no spring.

Though in the ways of fortune, understanding, or conscience thou hast been benighted till now, wintered and frozen, clouded and eclipsed, damped and benumbed, smothered and stupefied, now God comes to thee, not as the dawning of the day, not as the bud of the spring, but as the sun at noon.

~ John Donne

From John Donne's 1624 Christmas Day sermon
in St Paul's, London

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