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is on page 49 of 192
“…something to appreciate in the cross-section of humanity one has to meet every day. In my experience it is Affection that creates this taste, teaching us first to notice, then to endure, then to smile at, then to enjoy and finally to appreciate, the people who ‘happen to be there’. Made for us? Thank God, no. They are themselves, odder than you could have believed and worth far more than we guessed.”
— Sep 10, 2026 01:20PM
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Amy
is on page 72 of 192
“If Affection is made the absolute sovereign of a human life the seeds will germinate. Love, having become a god, becomes a demon.”
— Sep 11, 2026 05:56AM
Amy
is on page 71 of 192
“Affection produces happiness, if—and only if—there is common sense and give and take and ‘decency’. In other words, only if something more, and other, than Affection is added. The mere feeling is not enough… “That is the whole point. If we try to live by Affection alone, Affection with ‘go bad on us’.”
— Sep 11, 2026 05:55AM
Amy
is on page 66 of 192
“…the ravenous need to be needed will gratify itself either by keeping its objects needy or by inventing for them imaginary needs. It will do this all the more ruthlessly because it thinks (in one sense truly) that it is Gift-love and therefore regards itself as ‘unselfish’.”
— Sep 11, 2026 05:26AM
Amy
is on page 26 of 192
“Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word Glory a meaning for me. I still do not know where else I could have found one… And if nature had never awakened certain longings in me, huge areas of what I can now mean by the ‘love’ of God would never, so far as I can see, have existed.”
— Sep 04, 2026 05:28AM
Amy
is on page 19 of 192
“But where Need-love is left unaided we can hardly expect it not to ‘die on us’ once the need is no more. That is why the world rings with complaints of mothers whose grown-up children neglect them and of forsaken mistresses whose lovers’ love was pure need—which they have satisfied.”
— Sep 03, 2026 05:07AM
Amy
is on page 10 of 192
“We may give our human loves the unconditional allegiance which we owe only to God. Then they become gods: then they become demons. Then they will destroy us, and also destroy themselves. For natural loves that are allowed to become gods do not remain loves. They are still called so, but can become in fact complicated forms of hatred.”
— Sep 03, 2026 05:06AM
Amy
is on page 7 of 192
“Our model is the Jesus, not only of Calvary, but of the workshop, the roads, the crowds, the clamorous demands and surly oppositions, the lack of all peace and privacy, the interruptions. For this, so strangely unlike anything we can attribute to the Divine life in itself, is apparently not only like, but it, the Divine life operating under human conditions.”
— Sep 03, 2026 05:06AM