“For that there would have to be infinite love as well.”

—  Walter M. Miller, Jr., book A Canticle for Leibowitz

Ch 22
A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959), Fiat Lux
Context: But neither infinite power nor infinite wisdom could bestow godhood upon men. For that there would have to be infinite love as well.

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