"For Thou lovest all things that are, and abhorrest nothing which Thou hast made: for never wouldest Thou have made any thing, if Thou hadst hated it. But Thou sparest all: for they are Thine, O Lord, Thou lover of souls." -WISDOM OF SOLOMON xi. 24, 26.
HE prayeth best who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.
-S. T. COLERIDGE
TO know that Love alone was the beginning of nature and creature, that nothing but Love encompasses the whole universe of thing, that the governing Hand that overrules all, the watchful Eye that sees through all, is nothing but omnipotent and omniscient Love, using an infinity of wisdom, to save every misguided creature from the miserable works of his own hands, and make happiness and glory the perpetual inheritance of all the creation, is a reflection that must be quite ravishing to every intelligent creature that is sensible of it.
-W. M. LAW
