Quotation by

Augustus Hare

Love, it has been said, flows downward. The love of parents for their children has always been far more powerful than that of children for their parents and who among the sons of men ever loved God with a thousandth part of the love which God has manifest

Augustus Hare

God

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The quote suggests that love naturally moves from those in a higher position, like parents, toward those in a lower position, such as their children, rather than the other way around. It also emphasizes that God's love for humans is far greater than any love humans can have for God.

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