{"id":235,"date":"2009-02-22T12:15:53","date_gmt":"2009-02-22T12:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/tonyjones\/2009\/02\/quote-of-the-week-10.html"},"modified":"2009-02-22T12:15:53","modified_gmt":"2009-02-22T12:15:53","slug":"quote-of-the-week-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/tonyjones\/2009\/02\/quote-of-the-week-10.html","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\">The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, <br \/>and<br \/>\nthe most conformable to His goodness, <br \/>and that which He prizes the<br \/>\nmost, <br \/>was the freedom of will, <br \/>with which the creatures with<br \/>\nintelligence, <br \/>they all and they alone, <br \/>were and are endowed.<\/div>\n<div align=\"right\">Dante Alighieri<\/div>\n<div align=\"right\"><i>Divine Comedy, <\/i><i>Paradiso<\/i><br \/>Canto V, lines 19-24<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The greatest gift that God in His bounty made in creation, and the most conformable to His goodness, and that which He prizes the most, was the freedom of will, with which the creatures with intelligence, they all and they alone, were and are endowed. 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