Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents; and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifested to us?
Augustus HareAbout author
- Author's profession: Writer
- Nationality: english
- Born: March 13, 1834
- Died: January 22, 1903
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