#thunder

God speaks to me not through the thunder and the earthquake, nor through the ocean and the stars, but through the Son of Man, and speaks in a language adapted to my imperfect sight and hearing. ↗

— William Lyon Phelps

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Death is the sound of distant thunder at a picnic. ↗

— W. H. Auden

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