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Love, Pain, Grief, and Joy: Vol. 1, The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis

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Is Nearness of Approach a Gift of God?

Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God for what can be more unlike than fullness and need. I think it's also, I love this distinction between nearness as lightness and nearness of approach. Often the needy person is actually drawing closer to God than the self-sufficient person who has these God-like autonomy in his or her own life.

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