There was a wideness here that made praying seem more natural than it would have been at home in the open country.

There is a wideness like his mercy, a power like his omnipotence, a persistence like his patience, a length of work like his eternity.

Their vague feeling would probably find its most accurate expression in Faber's hymn, "There 's a wideness in God's mercy, like the wideness of the sea."