The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs.
It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.
Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs
God's love is not wearied by our sins & is relentless in its determination that we be cured at whatever cost to us or Him
And so take away his work, which was his life [. . .] and all his glory and his great deeds? Make a child and a dotard of him? Keep him to myself at that cost? Make him so mine that he was no longer his?