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   "As you see, He offers you a Shepherd; for this is what your Good Shepherd,   
   who lays down his life for his sheep, is hoping and praying for, and he   
   asks from you his subjects; and he gives you himself double instead of   
   single, and makes the staff of his old age a staff for your spirit. And he   
   adds to the inanimate temple a living one; to that exceedingly beautiful   
   and heavenly shrine, this poor and small one, yet to him of great value,   
   and built too with much sweat and many labours. Would that I could say it   
   is worthy of his labours. And he places at your disposal all that belongs   
   to him (O great generosity!- or it would be truer to say, O fatherly love!)   
   his hoar hairs, his youth, the temple, the high priest, the testator, the   
   heir, the discourses which you were longing for; and of these not such as   
   are vain and poured out into the air, and which reach no further than the   
   outward ear; but those which the Spirit writes and engraves on tables of   
   stone, or of flesh, not merely superficially graven, nor easily to be   
   rubbed off, but marked very deep, not with ink, but with grace."   
      
   St. Gregory the Theologian, On the Resurrection.   
      
   "What is man that You are mindful of him, And the son of man that You visit   
   him? For You have made him a little lower than the angels. You have crowned   
   him with glory and honor."  Psalm 8:4-5   
      
   Draw nigh unto God and He will draw nigh unto you.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)