“There was no light. The darkness was deep and there was no dazzle.”
“There is in God a deep but dazzling darkness.”
“There is in God (some say) a deep but dazzling darkness.”
“There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness.”
“George was an atheist, and so am I. But how I long now for an afterlife - a world of light or of deep dazzling darkness, where he and the others we've lost reside, unscathed, forever accessible - to have tea with, to talk nonsense with, to reinvent the world with”
“Before getting to the the light, you must pass through a deep darkness.”