Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.

Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers.

God loves us NOT because we're lovable, because He is love. Not because He needs to receive, because He delights to give.

If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often rebuked us and condemned us, He has never regarded us with contempt. He has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense.

Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had got out of the Author's control.

Please will you do my job for me.

Nothing is yet in its true form.