Loves

After a long, long wait, I have finally finished C.S. Lewis' The Four Loves.  I had started it back at the end of the summer, and I was very close to finishing.  All I lacked was the last chapter.  Well now I am done, and I have a few quotes I would like to share.

"Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose."

"To love at all is to be vulnerable.  Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken.  If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even an animal."

"The only place outside Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and perturbations of love is Hell."

"There is something in each of us that cannot be naturally loved.  It is no one's fault if they do not so love it.  Only the lovable can be naturally loved."

"...[T]hey are receiving Charity, are loved not because they are lovable but because Love Himself is in those who love them."

"We were made for God.  Only by being in some respect like Him, only by being a manifestation of His beauty, loving-kindness, wisdom or goodness, has any earthly Beloved excited our love."

Now I am moving on to a less theological book, Eric Clapton: the Autobiography.  So far I am enjoying it.