<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460126" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>John of Forde, His Exculpation</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">What I say and what I write<br>may seem to you – may seem to me –<br>as foolishness and folly; for<br>I talk of boundless things, and of infinity; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">which by their nature, are beyond<br>the human mind, the human pen; <br>should I then not and never speak of such? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or are these boundless things<br>just what mankind should talk about –<br>seeking the laws of atoms, or of space, only<br>to find the boundlessness yet further off<br>than men of yesteryear believed? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">and if I talk and write – beside those things<br>invisible as once the surface of the Moon –<br>then, of the boundlessness of love - which is yet bound<br>into Creation’s very substance – and<br>those other boundless things which seem to us<br>to be Creation's - even the Creator’s - very nature…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">then my exculpation is but simply this: <br>the motive force for what I write, <br>the theme of what I write, which is<br>my boundless love for you, for all, <br>demands, must win, forgiveness<br>from Boundlessness itself…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">there is no more, there is no less<br>than love, which is true boundlessness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">[adapted from Sermon 43 of John of Forde,1145-1214]</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460126" data-title="John of Forde, His Exculpation de Michael Shepherd" data-description="What I say and what I write may seem to you – may seem to me – as foolishness and folly; for I talk of boundless things, and of infinity; which by their nature, are beyond the human mind, the human pen; should I then not and never speak of ..."></div> </div> </div>

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