RELIGIOUS DIFFERENCES

Yes, we do differ when we most agree,

For words are not the same to you and me,

And it may be our several spiritual needs

Are best supplied by seeming different creeds.

And, differing, we agree in one

Inseparable communion,

If the true life be in our hearts; the faith

Which not to want is death;

To want is penance; to desire

Is purgatorial fire;

To hope is paradise; and to believe

Is all of heaven that earth can e'er receive.

--Hartley Coleridge.

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