They Open A Door And Enter A World

This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted.

He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand.

Most of all, perhaps, we need an intimate knowledge of the past. Not that the past has anything magical about it, but we cannot study the future.

We are forbidden to neglect the assembling of ourselves together. Christianity is already institutional in the earliest of its documents. The Church is the Bride of Christ. We are members of one another.

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.

Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.