“The problem of reconciling human suffering with the
existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial
meaning to the word "love", and look on things as if man were the
centre of them. Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man.
Man does not exist for his own sake. "Thou hast created all things, and
for thy pleasure they are and were created." We were made not primarily
that we may love God (though we were made for that too) but that God may love us,
that we may become objects in which the divine love may rest "well
pleased".” C.S. Lewis
“You turn dark shadows into
canopies of hope and dry grass into gold. My heart is spoiled and my
breath consumed when the beauty of earth gives a glimmer of understanding
to the beauty of You.” ~ Amy Litzelman
“God
has no needs. Human love, as Plato teaches us, is the child of Poverty – of
want or lack; it is caused by a real or supposed goal in its beloved which the
lover needs and desires. But God's love, far from being caused by goodness in
the object, causes all the goodness which the object has, loving it first into
existence, and then into real, though derivative, lovability. God is Goodness.
He can give good, but cannot need or get it. In that sense , His love is, as it
were, bottomlessly selfless by very definition; it has everything to give, and
nothing to receive.” C.S. Lewis
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