“For God's love, take things patiently, have sense, Think! We are prisoners and shall always be. Fortune has given us this adversity, Some wicked planetary dispensation, Some Saturn's trick or evil constellation Has given us this, and Heaven, though we had sworn The contrary, so stood when we were born. We must endure it, that's the long and short.” ThinkingLongEvilGivenHeavenBornAdversityFortuneEndureContraryTricksWickedPrisonerGod's LoveConstellationsSaturn Book:The Canterbury tales Source: The Canterbury tales
“It is the "where I am" that makes heaven. The life after death might become through its very endlessness a burden to our spirits, if it were not to be filled with the infinite variety and freshness of God's love. Some have shrunk from its very infinitude, because they have not realized what God's love can make of it. Human love helps us to understand this. When we have come to love any one with all our power of affection, then there is no monotony or weariness in the days and hours we spend with them.” IfsHumansHelpingMightSpiritHeavenHoursFutureInfiniteFilledAffectionBurdenVarietyAfter DeathGod's LoveWearinessFreshnessLife After DeathMonotonyHuman Love Book:Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock Source: Thoughts for Every-day Living from the Spoken and Written Words of Maltbie Davenport Babcock