It is not you that shapes God
it is God that shapes you.

If you are the work of God
await the hand of the artist
who does all things in due season.

Offer Him your heart,
soft and tractable,
and keep the form
in which the artist has fashioned you.

Let your clay be moist,
lest you grow hard
and lose the imprint of his fingers.

— Irenaeus (c. 130-200)

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O Lamb of God,
who takest away the sin of the world,
look upon us and have mercy upon us;

thou who art thyself both Victim and Priest,
thyself both Reward and Redeemer,

keep safe from all evil those whom thou hast redeemed,

O Savior of the world.

— Irenaeus (c. 130-200)

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