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Elisabeth Elliot 在 Passion and Purity 引用了以下的诗歌、我深受感动，所以抄了下来与你分享：

相信我，我不配得到你亲爱的责备—
正如你爱我的方式，我最爱的是神；
如果定要有所选择，我所要的定是神。
我不像罗得的妻子失去信心回头望、
还未准备好丢弃一切向前行；
就是说，我已经算过代价，
虽然我是主军队中最软弱的，
主所牧养的羊群中最可怜的，
但当我最爱的是神时，
我自认无法爱你那么多；
我愈爱他、让我也爱你，
是的，我想过了，爱就是—
若我不爱他、就无法爱你，
若我不爱你、就无法爱他。

原文出之： Monna Innominata: A Sonnet of Sonnets
Trust me, I have not earn'd your dear rebuke,
I love, as you would have me, God the most;
Would lose not Him, but you, must one be lost,
Nor with Lot's wife cast back a faithless look
Unready to forego what I forsook;
This say I, having counted up the cost,
This, though I be the feeblest of God's host,
The sorriest sheep Christ shepherds with His crook.
Yet while I love my God the most, I deem
That I can never love you overmuch;
I love Him more, so let me love you too;
Yea, as I apprehend it, love is such
I cannot love you if I love not Him,
I cannot love Him if I love not you.

~ Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)