Abandon all hope, you who enter here!

Ever wonder where that quotation came from? I had heard it without knowing it's source, then I read “Inferno,” The Divine Comedy, by Dante Alighieri (1265–1321). He used the phrase as the 'inscription at the entrance to Hell', in the words of the Bartleby.com entry for this quotation.

"Only a firm conviction of the truth of Christianity and our commitment to trust and obey God himself, with our minds renewed by the teaching of his Word, will bring any real or lasting change..."

~Being Human

Pity the nations, O our God, constrain the earth to come;
send your victorious Word abroad, and bring the strangers home.

~ hymn 'How Sweet and Awesome is the Place'

1 Corinthians 10:24

Let no one seek his own, but each one the others well-being.

Micah 6:8

He has shown you, O man, what is good,
And what does the LORD require of you
But to do justly, To love mercy, And to walk humbly with your God?