{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/sil/scw/scw10.htm","path":"chr/sil/scw/scw10.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/sil/scw/scw10.htm","text":"229 (V. 242)\n THE HIGHEST GOOD\n| What is the highest Good? Much talk hath been hereof And high debate: I swear the highest Good is Love. | \n230 (V. 241)\n EVERYTHING IS SUBJECT TO LOVE\n| Love is the Lord of All. Even the Trinity Hath been in thrall to Love from all eternity. | \n231 (V. 243)\n THE NATURE OF GOD\n| Love is God's nature. He can do naught else. Wouldst thou Be God, then likewise love in every instant's Now. | \n232 (V. 292)\n BEAUTY COMETH FROM LOVE\n| Beauty is born of Love alone. The Countenance Divine Hath all its Loveliness from Love\u2014 Else it would cease to shine. | \n233 (V. 295)\n THE MORE LOVING, THE HAPPIER\n| Love is the measure of the heart's Felicity; The more 'tis filled with Love, the happier thou wilt be. | \n234 (V. 320)\n THE SHORTEST WAY TO GOD\n| Pass through Love's gate if thou wouldst go The shortest way to God: Who takes the Path of Knowledge, long Must tarry on the road. | \n235 (V. 307)\n LOVE HATH MORE IN COMMON WITH GOD THAN WISDOM\n| Love unannounced goes in to God, Hath instant audience: Long in the antechamber wait Wit and intelligence. | \n236 (II. 47)\n LOVE SEEKETH NOT REWARD\n| Man, if thou lovest God and seekest hire for this, 'Tis plain thou tastest not what Love and Loving is. | \n237 (V. 303)\n THE TOKEN OF FALSE LOVE\n| Wouldst thou discern false Love from true, the token's this\u2014 False Love seeks self and fades under adversities. | \n238 (III. 205)\n HE WHO IS MOST IN LOVE IS MOST HOLY\n| Who is the greatest saint? He who is most in love. For saintship Love alone is warranty enough. | \n239 (V. 226)\n THE NATURE OF HOLINESS\n| The more thou lovest\u2014Love's the very heart Of Holiness\u2014the holier thou art. | \n240 (III. 173)\n LOVE IS THE SIGN\n| Thou askest which of all the people are God's friends? Behold the folk who carry Love in heart and hands! | \n241 (III. 164)\n LOVE IS THE SOUL OF BELIEF\n| Belief alone is dead. It cannot live or move Until united with its soul\u2014its soul is Love. | \n242 (V. 108)\n BELIEF ALONE IS A HOLLOW CASK\n| Belief alone, all void of Love, (So have I weighed it in my thought) Is like unto a hollow Cask\u2014 It soundeth, but within is naught. | \n243 (V. 161)\n NONE LAYETH HIS HEAD ON CHRIST'S BREAST BUT JOHN\n| Ah, think not, Child, that thou canst lay thy head upon The breast of the Lord Christ ere thou becomest John. | \n244 (VI. 204)\n THE SPIRlTUAL PASSWORD\n| Love is the password. He to whom it is not given Must never hope to cross the frontier-line of Heaven. | \n245 (V. 297)\n GOD CANNOT BE LOVED WITHOUT GOD\n| Did not God love Himself through thee and in thee, Man, Thy love for Him would ever fail of its full span. | \n246 (III. 201)\n GOD LOVETH TO GIVE GREAT GIFTS\n| Being Himself so great, greatly God loves to give, But ah! man's little heart is so small to receive. | \n247 (V. 210)\n NEW AND OLD LOVE\n| When Love is new, it foams like young and heady wine: When stiller grown, 'tis proof that it is old and fine. | \n248 (I. 163)\n MAN SHOULD LOVE MANKIND\n| Thou lovest none? 'Tis well. He has the better mind Who loves not any man, but loves in man Mankind. | \n249 (II. 60)\n OF LOVE\n| He wills and loveth right who wills and loveth naught: Who loveth what he wills, loveth not what he ought. | \n250 (V. 289)\n VIRTUE WITHOUT LOVE IS NOTHING WORTH\n| Before God Virtue cannot stand Naked and bare; It must put on the robe of Love\u2014 Then is it fair. | \n251 (II. 130)\n IT MUST BE GILDED\n| All that thou dost must be o'erlaid With gold of Love\u2014if otherwise, Thyself and all thy works will find But little favour in God's eyes. | \n252 (V. 299)\n AS THE PERSON, SO THE MERIT\n| Richer reward the Bride doth earn From God with but a single kiss, Than all the hirelings though they wear Themselves to death with drudgeries. | \n253 (II. 234)\n CHOOSE WHICH THOU WILT\n| Love is the Queen; the Virtues are The Maids who wait upon her; The serving-women, Work and Deed\u2014 Which wilt thou choose to honour? | \n254 (V. 302)\n THE QUICKEST\n| Love is the quickest thing and of itself can fly To topmost Heaven in but the twinkling of an eye. | \n255 (V. 306)\n AN UNWOUNDED HEART IS UNSOUND\n| A Heart which God hath never wounded with Love's wound, Scatheless though it appear, is never whole and sound. | \n256 (V. 211)\n SERAPHIC LOVE\n| The purest Love\u2014seraphic\u2014 Is not easy to divine, Because it is so quiet, By any outward sign. | \n257 (VI. 159)\n THE HEART MUST BE LOADED WITH BALL\n| Put a live charge into your gun! A puff of smoke and is that all? Why, if you only load with blank, The bang is there, but where's the ball? | \n258 (VI. 164)\n THE ORDINANCE IS AS WE ORDAIN\n| To him who wills his neighbour's weal God gives what he soliciteth: But if he wish his neighbour ill, O then he prays for his own death! | \n259 (V. 308)\n GOD'S COMMUNALITY\n| How broad God's communality! He teacheth whomso'er He list, The peasant lass no less than thee, The art whereby He may be kissed. | \n260 (III. 138)\n LOVE IS DEAD\n| Alas, Alas, Love's dead! How came she then to die? She perished of the cold, for all men passed her by. |","title":"X LOVE","type":"page"}