My awareness that I love you is now firm, not wavering -- your word struck a blow to my heart, and I love. The very sky and earth, after all, bid me love you, as do all the things (all around me) they contain. They bid every one of us to love, 'lest there be an excuse' for those not loving you (and even then, at a deeper level, 'you have mercy where your mercy wills, show pity where your pity wills' -- why else do heaven and earth reiterate their call to those not hearing them?).
~~St. Augustine of Hippo
Confessions
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