If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often rebuked us and condemned us, He has never regarded us with contempt. He has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense. —from The Problem of Pain
C.S. Leis may be one of those theologians that requires small drinks of thief work because the brew of their Truth is so powerful as to be overwhelming if I tried to speed-read his work.
