O world, thou choosest not the better part!
It is not wisdom to be only wise,
And on the inward vision close the eyes,
But it is wisdom to believe the heart.
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I was just thinkng to myself: Mother Emanuel Church - God with us - God within us. But how are we to believe in God when such a fate befalls his people worshiping him and studying his word? Then, by coincidence I click this poem. And George Santayana, whose works I remember well from reading in my youth, speaks to me. 'Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine / By which alone the mortal heart is led / Unto the thinking of the thought divine.' Praise God, from whom all blessings flow. And bless his people who suffer here below.
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I was just thinkng to myself: Mother Emanuel Church - God with us - God within us. But how are we to believe in God when such a fate befalls his people worshiping him and studying his word? Then, by coincidence I click this poem. And George Santayana, whose works I remember well from reading in my youth, speaks to me. 'Bid, then, the tender light of faith to shine / By which alone the mortal heart is led / Unto the thinking of the thought divine.' Praise God, from whom all blessings flow. And bless his people who suffer here below.