We Are All Creation: The True Word of God

BUT if objects for gratitude
and admiration are our desire,
do they not present themselves
every hour to our eyes?
Do we not see a fair creation
prepared to receive us
the instant we are born
-- a world
furnished to our hands,
that cost us nothing?
Is it we that light up the sun;
that pour down the rain;
and fill the earth with abundance?
Whether we sleep or wake,
the vast machinery
of the universe still goes on.
Are these things,
and the blessings
they indicate in future,
nothing to, us?
Can our gross feelings be excited
by no other subjects
than tragedy and suicide?
Or is the gloomy pride of man
become so intolerable,
that nothing can flatter it
but a sacrifice of the Creator?
– Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason