These men choose death for their life and shame for their boast,
For fear courage, for doubt intuition of faith,
Chose love that is strong as death and stronger than death
In the power of the Holy Ghost.
Christina G Rossetti
Wordsworth’s tribute to John Milton, whose life was afflicted by blindness, smitten by poverty and sorrow at home.
Thy soul was like a Star, and dwelt apart;
Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea;
Pure as the naked heavens, majestic, free,
So didst thou travel on life’s common way,
In cheerful godliness; and yet thy heart
The lowliest duties on herself did lay.
Who seeks for heaven alone to save his soul,
Moving apart, he will not reach the goal;
While he who walks in love may wander far,
But God will bring him where the blessed are.
John Ruskin: “The greatest thing a human soul ever does in this world is to see something, and tell what it saw in a plain way”.
‘The ascension that pole-star of our night’. Edward Irving
A gift shapes itself in stillness, but a character in the tumult of the world. Goethe
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