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Your Favorite Religious/ Scriptural Quotes
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RE: Your Favorite Religious/ Scriptural Quotes
Purgatorio XV: 67-75

That infinite and ineffable Good which is up
there, runs to love just as a ray comes to a shining
body.

It gives itself according to the measure of the
love it finds, so that however great is the charity
that reaches out, by so much the eternal Worth
grows upon it.

And the more people bend toward each other up
there, the more there is to love well and the more
love there is, like a mirror, each reflects it to
the other.

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Quello infinito e ineffabil bene
che là sù è, così corre ad amore
com’a lucido corpo raggio vene.

Tanto si dà quanto trova d’ardore;
sì che, quantunque carità si stende,
cresce sovr’essa l’etterno valore.

E quanta gente più là sù s’intende,
più v’è da bene amare, e più vi s’ama,
e come specchio l’uno a l’altro rende.

Jesus was sitting in Moses’ chair.
They brought the trembling woman there.
Moses commands she be ston’d to death.
What was the sound of Jesus’ breath?
He laid His hand on Moses’ law;
The ancient Heavens, in silent awe,
Writ with curses from pole to pole,
All away began to roll.
The Earth trembling and naked lay
In secret bed of mortal clay;
On Sinai felt the Hand Divine
Pulling back the bloody shrine;
And she heard the breath of God,
As she heard by Eden’s flood:
‘Good and Evil are no more!
Sinai’s trumpets cease to roar!
Cease, finger of God, to write!
The Heavens are not clean in Thy sight.
Thou art good, and Thou alone;
Nor may the sinner cast one stone.
To be good only, is to be
A God or else a Pharisee.

from The Everlasting Gospel, William Blake
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Your Favorite Religious/ Scriptural Quotes - by chimp3 - June 24, 2019 at 7:20 pm
RE: Your Favorite Religious/ Scriptural Quotes - by Belacqua - June 24, 2019 at 11:40 pm

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