“This sounds incongruous — yet it may be taken for granted that those who profess to follow Christianity and yet make of God a being malicious, revengeful, and of more evil attributes that they possess themselves — are as barbarous, as unenlightened, as hopelessly sunken in slavish ignorance as the lowest savage who adores his idols of mud and stone.”
More from Marie Corelli
“And Love, no matter how abused and maltreated, is a very patient god, and even while…”
“Love that keeps all the choir of lives in chime — Love that is blood within the veins of…”
“Still Love remained — a Love, chastened and sad, with drooping wings and somewhat doubting…”
“Is Love alone worth living for — worth dying for? Is it the only satisfying good we can…”