To refuse to respond is in itself a response.

Come t'e' picciol fallo amaro morso! Dante. What grievous pain a little fault doth give thee!

Refusing to accept God's love because we're unworthy - of course we're unworthy! - is another golden calf.

Vitam impendere vero. To stake one's life for the truth.

And joy is always a promise.

Only Christ can free us from the prison of legalism, and then only if we are willing to be freed.

We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast