All human nature vigorously resists grace because grace changes us and the change is painful.
As a breath on glass, - As witch-fires that burn, The gods and monsters pass, Are dust, and return. (“The Face of the Skies”)
Let him who is worthy by reason of his clear eye and unjaded heart wander across these borders of beauty and mystery and be glad.
A prison becomes a home when you have the key.
Thy Banners gleam a little, and are furled; Against thy turrets surge His phantom tow'rs; Drugged with his Opiates the nations nod, Refusing still the beauty of thine hours; And fragile is thy tenure of this world Still haunted by the monstrous ghost of God.
The cool, grey city of love.
And starward drifts the stricken world, Lone in unalterable gloom Dead, with a universe for tomb, Dark, and to vaster darkness whirled. (“The Testimony of the Suns”)
The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.
The point for me is people who are atheists or are coming from different religious traditions; they are coming from their own sources and specific roots. We should analyze these.
Many religions over the years have suggested that when a woman is menstruating, she should be avoided and not touched.
Your ideal body weight as an ectomorph at 6' 0" will be 214. 378 lbs. There. Happy? And if you lose or gain a pound, I will have you killed. It is important to be ideal.