The Spring of Unfailing Love

by Isaac of Syria

LOVE WHICH STEMS from created things is like a small lamp whose light is sustained by being fed with olive oil.

Again, it is like a river fed by rainfall; once the supply that feeds it fails, the surge of flow abates.

But love whose cause is God alone is like a spring welling up from the depths: its flow never abates, for God alone is that spring of love whose supply never fails.


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