Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience.

God has no needs. Human love, as Plato teaches us, is the child of Poverty – of want or lack; it is caused by a real or supposed goal in its beloved which the lover needs and desires. But God's love, far from being caused by goodness in the object, causes all the goodness which the object has, loving it first into existence, and then into real, though derivative, lovability. God is Goodness. He can give good, but cannot need or get it. In that sense , His love is, as it were, bottomlessly selfless by very definition; it has everything to give, and nothing to receive.

A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said wouldn't be a great moral teacher. He'd be either a lunatic on a level with a man who says he's a poached egg or else he'd be the devil of hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God.

When you have reached your own room, be kind to those Who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall.

Love is never wasted, for its value does not rest upon reciprocity.