“If you don’t want God, why are you so anxious to want to want Him?”
― God in the Dock
― God in the Dock
“Because we love something else more than this world we love even this world better than those who know no other.”
― God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics
― God in the Dock: Essays on Theology and Ethics
“Myth is the isthmus which connects the peninsular world of thought with that vast continent we really belong to. It is not, like truth, abstract; nor is it, like direct experience, bound to the particular.”
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“It may happen to any of us at any moment. In the twinkling of an eye, in a time too small to be measured, and in any place, all that seems to divide us from God can flee away, vanish leaving us naked before Him, like the first man, like the only man, as if nothing but He and I existed. And since that contact cannot be avoided for long, and since it means either bliss or horror, the business of life is to learn to like it. That is the first and great commandment.”
― God in the Dock
― God in the Dock
“When any man comes into the presence of God he will find, whether he wishes it or not, that all those things which seemed to make him so different from the men of other times, or even from his earlier self, have fallen off him. He is back where he always was, where every man always is.”
― God in the Dock
― God in the Dock
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