“God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent.”
Madeleine L'Engle (1918–2007) American writer
Source: The Irrational Season
“Promise me no promises,
So will I not promise you:
Keep we both our liberties,
Never false and never true:
Let us hold the die uncast,
Free to come as free to go:
For I cannot know your past,
And of mine what can you know?”
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So will I not promise you:
Keep we both our liberties,
Never false and never true:
Let us hold …" by Christina Rossetti?
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