“Job plunges into a series of demands on and accusations of God which may be and indeed are epigrams of high intelligence, but are not noticeably patient.”
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The famous saying 'God is love', it is generally assumed, means that God is like our immediate emotional indulgence, not that the meaning of love ought to have something of the 'otherness' and terror of God.
The Divine Thing that made itself the foundation of the Church does not seem, to judge by his comments on the religious leadership of his day, to have hoped much from officers of a church.
A German immersed in any civilization different from his own loses a weight equivalent in volume to the amount of intelligence he displaces.
But every time our ability to access information and to communicate it to others is improved, in some sense we have achieved an increase over natural intelligence.