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Need-love cries to God from our poverty; Gift-love longs to serve, or even to suffer for, God; Appreciative love says: "We give thanks to thee for thy great glory." Need-love says of a woman "I cannot live without her"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection — if possible, wealth; Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be wholly dejected by losing her, would rather have it so than never to have seen her at all.
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[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop.
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The ancient man approached God (or even the gods)as the accused person approaches his judge. For the modern man the roles are reversed. He is the judge: God is in the dock. He is quite a kindly judge: if God should have a reasonable defense for being the god who permits war, poverty, and disease, he is ready to listen to it. The trial may even end in God's acquittal. But the important thing is that Man is on the bench and God is in the dock.
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To be a Christian means to forgive the inexcusable because God has forgiven the inexcusable in you.
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My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself.
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Many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and... God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again
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I#pray because the need flows out of me all the time-walking and sleeping. It does not change # God - it changes me.
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[Christians] believe that the living, dynamic activity of love has been going on in God forever and has created everything else. And that, by the way, is perhaps the most important difference between Christianity and all other religions: that in Christianity God is not an impersonal thing nor a static thing—not even just one person—but a dynamic pulsating activity, a life, a kind of drama, almost, if you will not think me irreverent, a kind of dance … (The) pattern of this three-personal life is … the great fountain of energy and beauty spurting up at the very center of reality.
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Man was appointed by God to have dominion over the beasts, and everything a man does to an animal is either a lawful exercise or a sacrilegious abuse of an authority by divine right.
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We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort.
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The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you. All the thrills of religion and none of the cost. Is the Life-Force the greatest achievement of wishful thinking the world has yet seen?
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Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us - an energy which, if not thus distorted, would have blossomed into one of those holy acts whereof 'God did it' and 'I did it' are both true descriptions.
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All is summed up in the prayer which a young female human is said to have uttered recently: "O God, make me a normal twentieth-century girl!" Thanks to our labors, this will mean increasingly: "Make me a minx, a moron, and a parasite.
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There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan.
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Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.
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Even atheists rebel and express, like Hardy and Housman, their rage against God although (or because) He does not, on their view, exist...
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The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God.
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We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.
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Pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains.
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When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand.'
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God is not merely good, but goodness; goodness is not merely divine, but God.
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'Are the gods not just?'
'Oh no, child. What would become of us if they were?'
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Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want
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If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself.
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God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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Born:
November 29, 1898
Died:
November 22, 1963
(aged 64)
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