“He is a jealous lover and suffereth no fellowship, and Him list not work in thy will but if He be only with thee by Himself. He asketh [p. 70] none help, but only thyself.”
― The Cloud of Unknowing
― The Cloud of Unknowing
“This is the courtesy of Deep Heaven: that when you mean well, He always takes you to have meant better than you knew. It will not be enough for always. He is very jealous. He will have you for no one but Himself in the end. But for tonight, it is enough.”
― That Hideous Strength
― That Hideous Strength
“If there is something missing—if I am afraid to love her quite as much as before—it is only because the potential for love feels so big and so intense that I fear I will disappear in the expression of it, that it will blow my skin away like clouds and I will be nothing.”
― Good as Gone
― Good as Gone
“And therefore take good heed unto time, how that thou dispendest it: for nothing is more precious than time. In one little time, as little as it is, may heaven be won and lost.”
― The Cloud of Unknowing
― The Cloud of Unknowing
“Strengthen the feebler, lighten the darker, love all.”
― Perelandra
― Perelandra
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