I live and love in God's peculiar light.
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I live and love in God's peculiar light.
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Not everyone shares this religious perspective.
Caro m' e 'l sonno, e piu l'esser di sasso, Mentre che 'l danno e la vergogna dura: Non veder, non sentir, m' e gran ventura; Pero non mi destar, deh! parla ba…
I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.
As when, O lady mine! With chiselled touch The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould. The more the marble wastes, The more the statue grows.
That God of the clergymen, He is for me as dead as a doornail. But am I an atheist for all that? The clergymen consider me as such - be it so; but I love, and …
'Admite the world. Relish the love of a gentle woman. Trust in the lord.'
To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings.