Occupation: Writer Birth: May 22, 1934
All life is dying life – including the life of God..
We should be empty of clutching, empty of self, empty of all the old ideas of substance. We should be ‘lost in the objectivity of world-love’, as I h….
To love is to be vulnerable: if God loves, then God is mortal..
To say that God is love is in effect to say simply that love is God..
I am suggesting that we can and do regain eternity when we are so immersed in life, in moral action, or in aesthetic contemplation, that we completel….
Religious ideas such as the idea of God have functioned as regulative ideals for us to aspire after: we too could become unified and capable subjects….
A God out there and values out there, if they existed, would be utterly useless and unintelligible to us. There is nothing to be gained by nostalgia ….
The Servant who really studies his Master gradually becomes like his master; gradually learns that he himself is the one who in the end does all the ….
Remember that the past fifty years has been the age of the Big Bang cosmology. We have learnt to see all reality as a slow-motion explosion, as pouri….
A belief is made religious, not so much by its content, as rather by the way it is held..
Capital T truth is dead..
Christmas is the Disneyfication of Christianity..