The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God.

Quote by Charles Williams

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The most he would do was to promise that the gates of hell should not...

The most he would do was to promise that the gates of hell should not...

It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their...

It is as pleasant as it is unusual to see thoroughly good people getting their...

I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where...

I think in order to move forward into the future, you need to know where...

It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to...

It is easier often to forgive than to be forgiven; yet it is fatal to...

Hell is indefinite.

Hell is indefinite.

To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy...

To forgive and to be forgiven are the two points of holy magnificence and holy...

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other...

Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other...

Hell is indefinite

Hell is indefinite

Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and...

Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and...

Of Adam and Eve: They had what they wanted. That they did not like it...

Of Adam and Eve: They had what they wanted. That they did not like it...

Job plunges into a series of demands on and accusations of God which may be...

Job plunges into a series of demands on and accusations of God which may be...

Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and...

Play and pray; but on the whole do not pray when you are playing and...

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither...

Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither...

The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to...

The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to...

The history of Christianity would have been far happier if we all had remembered one...

The history of Christianity would have been far happier if we all had remembered one...

We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to...

We ought to recognize that we have an offensive responsibility to take the war to...

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up...

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up...

In the dark room a cloud of yellow dust flew from beneath the tool like...

In the dark room a cloud of yellow dust flew from beneath the tool like...

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to...

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to...

Knowledge helps dormant intelligence to awake and become conscious which automatically brings so many additional...

Knowledge helps dormant intelligence to awake and become conscious which automatically brings so many additional...