Something Later

For Christian thought, delight is the premise of any sound epistemology: it is delight that constitutes creation, so only delight can comprehend it, see it aright, understand its grammar. Only in loving creation's beauty - only in seeing that creation is beauty - does one apprehend what creation is.

— David Bentley Hart, The Beauty of the Infinite, p. 253

There are innumerable evidences both in heaven and on earth that declare his wonderful wisdom; not only those more recondite matters for the closer observation of which astronomy, medicine, and all natural science are intended, but also those which thrust themselves upon the sight of even the most untutored and ignorant persons, so that they cannot open their eyes without being compelled to witness them. Indeed, men who either quaffed or even tasted the liberal arts penetrate with their aid far more deeply into the secrets of the divine wisdom. Yet ignorance of them prevents no one from seeing more than enough of God's workmanship in his creation to lead him to break forth in admiration of the Artificer.

— John Calvin, Institutes, 1.5.2 (emphasis mine)

Wherever you cast your eyes, there is no spot in the universe wherein you cannot discern at least some sparks of his glory. You cannot in one glance survey this most vast and beautiful system of the universe, in its wide expanse, without being completely overwhelmed by the boundless force of its brightness.

— John Calvin, Institutes, 1.5.1