re-regeneration

Updated: May 20, 2025

I do not mean a re-regeneration, but a permitting of the mind to assume that tone of calm wonder and infantile trust, which will allow all the innate principles within all God-bestowed graces which have been bruised and bowed by the tempest, to blossom gently upwards again, in "the clear shining after rain" a breathing time in life not too much retrospection or self-examination keep that for the healthy and vigorous hours of the mind but a silent basking in the light of God's presence a time for faith, more than for labour; for general and unexpressed, more than for particular or earnest prayer.

Charles Kingsley - Out of the Deep: Words for the Sorrowful