God’s Grace

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One cannot think that any holy earthly love will cease, when we shall be like the angels of God in heaven. Love here must shadow our love there, deeper because spiritual, without any alloy from our sinful nature and in fullness of the love of God. But as we grow here by God’s grace will be our capacity for endless love. So, then, if by our very suffering we are purified, and our hearts enlarged, we shall, in that endless bliss, love more those whom we loved here, than if we had never had that sorrow, never been parted.

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