Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him.

I hope I do not offend God by making my Communions in the frame of mind I have been describing. The command, after all, was Take, eat: not Take, understand.

Feelings, and feelings, and feelings. Let me try thinking instead.

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.

Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters.

Literature adds to reality, it does not simply describe it.

And there’s also ‘To him that hath shall be given.’ After all, you must have a capacity to receive, or even omnipotence can’t give. Perhaps your own passion temporarily destroys the capacity.