Nahom Ghebredngl
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Nahom Ghebredngl
Renaissance Art
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Burning dove, of light of fire, the holy spirit descends as a dove (Luke 3:22) combined with Acts 2:3–4, tongues “as of fire”
Burning or unburnt bush
21 “There is a place near me where you may stand on a rock. 22 When my glory passes that place, I will put you in a large ·crack [fissure; T cleft] in the rock and ·cover [screen] you with my hand until I have passed by. 23 Then I will ·take away [remove] my hand, and you will see my back. But my face must not be seen.”
biblegateway.com • Bible Gateway Passage: 1 Corinthians 12:12-31 - English Standard Version
True devotion lacks desire. The desire to love God, the desire to meet him, or the desire for salvation, it even lacks the desire to be loved back
"Neil still loves Sarah, and misses her as much as he ever did, and the knowledge that he came so close to rejoining her only makes it worse. He knows his being sent to Hell was not a result of anything he did; he knows there was no reason for it, no higher purpose being served. None of this diminishes his love for God. If there were a possibility that he could be admitted to Heaven and his suffering would end, he would not hope for it; such desires no longer occur to him. Neil even knows that by being beyond God’s awareness, he is not loved by God in return. This doesn’t affect his feelings either, because unconditional love asks nothing, not even that it be returned. And though it’s been many years that he has been in Hell, beyond the awareness of God, he loves Him still. That is the nature of true devotion. "
Jealousy is a triangle, a dance in which everyone moves
The foundational structure for Anne Carson’s analysis of Sappho, Marguerite Porete, and Simone Weil’s reports on love and god
Definition of REPLETION
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used to note Marguerite Porete’s experience of poverty or emptiness in relation to God
Love letters to death, heat, and sex
Loves Letters to Death, Heat, and Sex(an account of the life of Simeon the Elder) Eventually, Simeon went his own way, first as a recluse and then as a stylite (from the Greek stylos, meaning "pillar") mounting the first of three successive pillars, each higher than the one before. On the pillar...
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Skin and
VIZ: Read Special One-shot Manga - Official Shonen Jump From Japan
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Competetion and mutual inspiration. It’s hard to do it all by yourself
