I Myself Am Heaven And Hell
I sent my soul through the Invisible
Some letter of that after-life to spell:
And by and by my soul returned to me
And answered, “I myself am Heaven and Hell”
Heaven but the vision of fulfilled Desire,
And Hell the shadow from a soul on fire.
—Omar Khattam.
God In The Soul
But God is never so far off
As even to be near;
He is within: our spirit is
The home He holds most dear.
To think of Him as by our side
Is almost as untrue,
As to remove His throne beyond
Those skies of starry blue.
—F. W. Faber.
Responsibilities That Lift
A kite will not fly unless it has a string tying it down. It is just so in life. The man who is tied down by a half dozen promising responsibilities and their mother will make a higher and stronger flight than the bachelor who, having nothing to keep him steady, is always floundering in the mud. If you want to ascend in the world tie yourself to somebody.
—O. S. Marden.
Alternate Reading: I Corinthians 13.