The First Revelation, Chapter 5
Context: He shewed me a little thing, the quantity of an hazel-nut, in the palm of my hand; and it was as round as a ball. I looked thereupon with eye of my understanding, and thought: What may this be? And it was answered generally thus: It is all that is made. I marvelled how it might last, for methought it might suddenly have fallen to naught for little. And I was answered in my understanding: It lasteth, and ever shall for that God loveth it. And so All-thing hath the Being by the love of God.
“He prayeth best, who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.”
Source: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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“No man loveth God except the man who has first learned that God loves him.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 398.
The First Revelation, Chapter 5
Context: In this Little Thing I saw three properties. The first is that God made it, the second is that God loveth it, the third, that God keepeth it. But what is to me verily the Maker, the Keeper, and the Lover, — I cannot tell; for till I am Substantially oned to Him, I may never have full rest nor very bliss: that is to say, till I be so fastened to Him, that there is right nought that is made betwixt my God and me.
“Lov'est thou me? This is the one test question of our religion; for he that loveth is born of God.”
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 398.
in [1, John, 4:12, KJV]
First Letter of John
“God willeth that we endlessly hate the sin and endlessly love the soul, as God loveth it.”
The Thirteenth Revelation, Chapter 40
“If Hell were possible, it would be the shortest cut to the highest heaven. For verily God loveth.”
Thoughts and Aphorisms (1913), Bhakti
The First Revelation, Chapter 6
Context: Our soul is so specially loved of Him that is highest, that it overpasseth the knowing of all creatures: that is to say, there is no creature that is made that may know how much and how sweetly and how tenderly our Maker loveth us. And therefore we may with grace and His help stand in spiritual beholding, with everlasting marvel of this high, overpassing, inestimable Love that Almighty God hath to us of His Goodness. And therefore we may ask of our Lover with reverence all that we will.
For our natural Will is to have God, and the Good Will of God is to have us; and we may never cease from willing nor from longing till we have Him in fullness of joy: and then may we no more desire.
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