“The total transcendence of the godhead quite surpasses the capacity of ordinary speech. God can be thought about more truly than he can be talked about, and he is more truly than he can be thought about. (The Trinity, 7.7)”
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“What is not expressed generally has greater power than words. (p. 214)”
― Wounded by Love
― Wounded by Love
“The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing — to reach the Mountain, to find the place where all the beauty came from —”
― Till we have Faces : A Myth Retold
― Till we have Faces : A Myth Retold
“[All things] are little loves through which we attain to the great Love that is Christ. Flowers, for example, have their own grace: they teach us of the love of God. They scatter their fragrance and their beauty on sinners and on the righteous. (p. 218)”
― Wounded by Love
― Wounded by Love
“Tao is obscured when men understand only one of a pair of opposites, or concentrate only on a partial aspect of being. (p. 42)”
― The Way of Chuang Tzu
― The Way of Chuang Tzu
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