"It were well you should be thoroughly sensible of this, -- 'the heaven of heavens is love.'
There is nothing higher in religion; there is, in effect, nothing else; if you look for anything but more love, you are looking wide of the mark, you are getting out of the royal way...
Settle it then in your heart, that from the moment God has saved you from all sin, you are to aim at nothing more, but more of that love described in the thirteenth of the Corinthians.You can go no higher than this, till you are carried into Abraham's bosom."
(John Wesley, A Plain Account of Christian Perfection, Section 25. Question 33)
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The plate is a mid-Victorian cockle plate, a gift from Sheila, the mug was bought at Gwennap Pit, and the Oxford Critical Edition of the Hymns is one of my most treasured and used possessions.
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