(May 14, 2025 at 10:36 pm)The Grand Nudger Wrote: I've been permanently influenced by a great many pieces of text. This should not be an unfamiliar experience to a christian.
This changed me forever:
Donne Wrote:No man is an island,
Entire of itself;
Every man is a piece of the continent,
A part of the main.
If a clod be washed away by the sea,
Europe is the less,
As well as if a promontory were:
As well as if a manor of thy friend's
Or of thine own were.
Any man's death diminishes me,
Because I am involved in mankind.
And therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls;
It tolls for thee.
Funny that a professed Christian should deny the power of these words.