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To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.

— E. Stanley Jones

The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.

— Jonathan Edwards

Being with nature opens us up to divine experience.

— James Redfield

The love which moves the world, according to common Christian belief, is God's love and the love of God.

— Mortimer Adler

God can desire to enter into a relationship with us; he can be drawn to some aspect of our identity.

— Meir Soloveichik

From the beginning, the sensation of the marvelous presupposes faith.

— Alejo Carpentier

There is but one kind of love; God is love, and all his creatures derive theirs from his; only it is modified by the different degrees of intelligence in different beings and creatures.

— John James Audubon

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

— Thornton Wilder

Spiritual men have taken into their head something that is to be realized. They have concepts of love, goodness, and the like, which they would like to see realized; therefore they want to set up a kingdom of love on earth, in which no one any longer acts from selfishness, but each one 'from love.' Love is to rule.

— Max Stirner

✗Opposing Perspectives

Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.

— William Ralph Inge