Christ offers something for nothing: He even offers everything for nothing.

In your world, I have another name. You should know me by it.

In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.

If things are real, they're there all the time.

He's not safe, but he's good (referring to Aslan, the Lion, in The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe)

And so take away his work, which was his life [. . .] and all his glory and his great deeds? Make a child and a dotard of him? Keep him to myself at that cost? Make him so mine that he was no longer his?

The full acting out of the self's surrender to God therefore demands pain: this action, to be perfect, must be done from the pure will to obey, in the absence, or in the teeth, of inclination