What is a religion worth which costs you nothing? What is a sense of God worth which would be at your disposal, capable of being comfortably elicited when and where you please?

What is a religion worth which costs you nothing? What is a sense of God worth which would be at your disposal, capable of being comfortably elicited when and where you please? It is far, far more God who must hold us, than we who must hold Him. And we get trained in these darknesses into that sense of our impotence without which the very presence of God becomes a snare.

FRIEDRICH VON HUGEL
FROM LETTERS FROM BARON VON HUGEL TO A NIECE, EDITED BY GWENDOLEN GREENE
(J.M. DENT & SONS, 1928)

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