Thus you may understand that love alone is the true seed of every merit in you, and of all acts for which you must atone.
Dante AlighieriAnd as he, who with laboring breath has escaped from the deep to the shore, turns to the perilous waters and gazes.
Dante AlighieriThey find seven cornices on which penitent and redeemed sinners are cleansed by the grace of God. On the first cornice, that of Pride, the proud are learning humility: Our Father, dwelling in the Heavens, nowise As circumscribed, but as the things above, Thy first effects, are dearer in Thine eyes, Hallowed Thy name be and the Power thereof, By every creature, as right meet it is We praise the tender effluence of Thy love. Let come to us, let come Thy kingdom's peace.
Dante Alighieri