“On the night of the exodus, the people met God, had a rendezvous with Him, and made His acquaintance for the first time. On Yom Kippur night, man gets very close to his Father in heaven, again meets Him, talks to Him, cries before and implores Him. The grandeur and singularity of these two nights lie in the God-man confrontation.”
Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Festival of Freedom: Essays on Pesah and the Haggadah, p. 3 (2006)
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Journal of Discourses 21:308 (September 19, 1880).
Joseph Smith Jr.'s First Vision

Source: The Riverworld series, To Your Scattered Bodies Go (1971), Chapter 1 (p. 1; First lines, depicting the death of Sir Richard Francis Burton).


“A man’s best things are nearest him,
Lie close about his feet.”
The Men of Old.

“God made night
But
Man made darkness.”
Poem God Made Night, Small Dreams of a Scorpion: Poems (1972)