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“It is love who mixed the mortar
And it’s love who stacked these stones
And it’s love who made the stage here
Although it looks like we’re alone
In this scene, set in shadows,
Like the night is here to stay
There is evil cast around us
But it’s love that wrote the play
For in this darkness love can show the way”
—David Wilcox, “Love Will Show the Way”
“The blood, the soil, the faith
These words you can’t forget
Your vow, your holy place
O love, aren’t you tired yet?”
—Leonard Cohen
“Malice will never drive out malice. But if someone does evil to you, you should do good to him, so that by your good work you will destroy his malice.”
— The Wisdom of the Desert, Thomas Merton
“Do not be overcome by evil, but overcome evil with good.”
— Romans 12:21
“Very early in the morning on the first day of the week, before anyone had done a stroke of work or acquired a jot of merit, he rose from the sepulchre, bringing new life to his disciples. What then began had nothing to do with last week's work or last week's sins; they all seemed centuries away. The old world for Christ's disciples had ended in calamity, had gone down into a gulf of darkness; the earth had crumbled under their feet, they had nothing to stand upon. But here was something as new as the creation of the world where no world was; new life straight from the hands of the only living God.”
—Austin Farrer
God declares "You shall have no other gods before Me." Jesus later defines that law by saying "Love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul , mind and strength."