Michael DiMarco

You can love the loveable under your own power. Only through Christ’s power can you love the unloveable. Thank God that my wife knows this.

A child kicks his legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, “Do it again”; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony.

It is possible that God says every morning, “Do it again” to the sun; and every evening, “Do it again” to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we. The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical encore.

Orthodoxy - G.K. Chesterson

“Nothing is so beautiful, nothing is so continually fresh and surprising, so full of sweet and perpetual ecstasy as the good.  No deserts are so dreary, monotonous and boring as evil.  But with fantasy it is the other way round.  Fictional good is boring and flat, while fictional evil is varied, intriguing, attractive and full of charm.”

Simone Weil

(HT - Ray Ortlund)