To walk out of his will is to walk into nowhere.

Only real risk passes the reality of faith.

It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous.

He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart

Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial 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.

To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert.