• ''God is Love,'' we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word.

  W. H. Auden
  American poet
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1. understand
2. repelled
3. inkling
4. indeed
5. loves
6. seems

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''God is Love,'' we are taught as children to believe. But when we first begin to get some inkling of how He loves us, we are repelled; it seems so cold, indeed, not love at all as we understand the word. by : W. H. Auden

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