Great Regulars: As the bellows breathe on the fire,

so is the spirit of God breathed into man. God illuminates as the smith shines and God seeks to mend man's fallen nature as the smith mends a broken vessel. But mending is not enough, because only a radical reconstruction of his being will make him worthy of his master.

from Bhaskar Banerjee: Merinews: John Donne as a religious poet

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