"The glory of God is not a reality that can be transferred merely by words. There is an immediacy in this discovery — a spiritual perception happens, a holy taste is born, a God-given revelation hits home.

And no flood of words, no amount of reasonings, no mere arguments could ever impart what the heart sees when it sees the glory of God.

It can come through the skies or it can come through the Scriptures or it can come through the gifts and fruits of the Holy Spirit. But it is always more than the fruit of the Spirit, more than the Scriptures, more than the skies.

These are the portrait not the Reality. These are the handiwork, not the Artist."

—John Piper