"God is Spirit, certainly. It stands written in the fourth chapter of John, verse twenty-four. But let us not oversimplify! If God is spirit, then my soul must be something else; or if my soul is spirit, I must find another name for God. St. John means the same thing, for when he says "spirit," like St. Paul, he has the Holy Spirit in mind. In other words, by comparison with the Holy Spirit, body and soul, matter and spirit, person and thing are all "carnal." Between all these and the living God lies […] the distance between Creator and creature.[…] Before this bottomless ravine, the difference between earthly body and soul shrinks to insignificance."
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, The Lord (Der Herr, 1937), trans. Elinor Castendyk Briefs (Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1954), p. 429
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