Pure faith indeed you know not what you ask!

Naked belief in God the omnipotent,

Omniscient, Omnipresent, sears too much

The sense of conscious creatures to be borne.

It were the seeing him, no flesh shall stare.

Some think, Creation's meant to show him faith:

I say, it's meant to hide him all it can,

And that's what all the blessed evil's for.

It's use in Time is to environ us,

Our breath, our drop of dew, with shield enough

Against that sight till we can bear its stress.

Under a vertical sun, the exposed brain

And lidless eye and disimprisoned heart

Less certainly would wither up at once

Than mind, confronted with the truth of him.

But time and earth case-harden us to live.

Robert Browning, "Bishop Bloughram's Apology"