No,' said my teacher. The warm sun was shining on us. But Miss Sullivan shook her head. You cannot touch the clouds, you know, but you can feel the rain and know how glad the flowers and thirsty earth are to have it after a hot day. Without love you would not be happy or want to play.
Love is something like the clouds from which sweetness pours into life.
The Bible is one answer to that question. And the Bible began by saying that God is like the most powerful thing that we know. For certainly, our first and primary impression of God is the dynamic, vitalizing energy which makes things go. Now for people who lived in a desert, the most powerful, the most awe-inspiring thing that they knew was a volcano in eruption, and so the Bible began by saying that God is like a volcano. He is like a cloud of smoke by day and a pillar of fire by night.