Loved once for ever loved: how surely sounds This gospel to me since I learned to list Truth from thy lips, mine own evangelist. What thought presumes to set now any bounds To Love whose being informs us and surrounds?
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Barlas reflects on a divine truth about eternal love taught to him, asserting that love has no bounds and surrounds existence.
- In plain terms
- Love is eternal and boundless, surrounding us according to a truth taught to me.
- What can you take from it?
- Love is an infinite force that defines existence.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Can love be infinite?
- How does truth guide love?
Another view
The concept of boundless love may not apply to all human relationships.
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