 What is outside the system of self-giving is no earth, nor nature, nor 'ordinary life', but simply and solely Hell. Yet even Hell derives from this law such reality as it has. Topics: Giving, Nature |
| That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality. Topics: Giving, Selfishness
Source: The Problem of Pain |
| Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. Topics: Giving |
| I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare. Topics: Giving |
| The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. Topics: Giving |
| Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior. Topics: God
Source: A Preface to Paradise Lost |
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| You have gone into the Temple and found Him, as always, there. Topics: God
Source: from a letter "To A Lady" |
| If the universe is so bad, how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator? Topics: God
Source: The Problem of Pain |
| Those who would like the God of scripture to be more purely ethical, do not know what they ask. Topics: God, Scripture
Source: The Problem of Pain |
| God is not proud. He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him. Topics: God, Pride
Source: The Problem of Pain |
| God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love. Topics: God, Love
Source: The Problem of Pain |
| No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights. Topics: God, Service, Work |
