To enter heaven is to become more human than you ever succeeded in being on earth; to enter hell is to be banished from humanity. What is cast (or casts itself) into hell is not a man: it is 'remains.'

Love is unselfishly choosing for another's highest good.

If you don't listen to theology, that won't mean you have no ideas about God, it will mean you have a lot of wrong ones.

We may note in passing that He (Jesus) was never regarded as a mere moral teacher. He did not produce that effect on any of the people who actually met Him. He produced mainly three effects - Hatred - Terror - Adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild admiration.

As long as you notice, and have to count the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance. A good shoe is a shoe you don't notice. Good reading becomes possible when you need not conciously think about eyes, or light, or print, or spelling. The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God.

That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.