The Sanctifier and bright Lord who is glorious in operation, the dispositioner, the effector of all trans-substantiations, who sets the traverse wall according to the measure of the angel with the reed, who knows best how to gather his epiklesis from that open plain, who transmutes their cheerless blasphemy into a lover's word, who spoke by Balaam and by Balaam's ass, who spoke also by Sgt. Bullcock.
Thursday, February 23, 2012
to forgive; to be forgiven
Many promising reconciliations have broken down because, while both parties came prepared to forgive, neither party came prepared to be forgiven.
- Charles Williams, quoted in W. H. Auden, A Certain World
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