Quote#Love
Earthly joy can take but a bat-like flight, always checked, always…
Quote byFrances Ridley Havergal · 1836–1879
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 399..
English (original)
Earthly joy can take but a bat-like flight, always checked, always limited, in dusk and darkness. But the love of Christ breaks through the vaulting, and leads us up into the free sky above, expanding to the very throne of Jehovah, and drawing us still upward to the infinite heights of glory.
— Frances Ridley Havergal
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Oh to be my verse an answering gleam from higher radiance caught
....We write our lives indeed, But in a cipher none can read, Except the author
Only, stay by his side Till the page is really known, It may be we failed because we tried To learn it all alone, And now that He would not let us lose One lesson of love