God, impart thy strength;
and in strength, power to suffer;
And to suffer for the truth;
And in truth, all light;
And in light, gwynvyd (heaven;
And in gwynvyd, love;
And in love, God;
And in God, all goodness.

The traditional ancient Welsh Prayer of the Gywddoniaid, “The Wise Men,” preserved in LLYer Mawr Margam, The Great Book of Margam.

[found in The Celtic Saints: an illustrated and authoritative guide to these extraordinary Men and Women, Nigel Pennick]

Here is God’s purpose —
for God, to me, it seems,
is a verb
not a noun.

R. Buckminster Fuller U.S. designer and architect, 1895-1983

No More Secondhand God (1963, written 1940).