Research Catalog

Title

The choice to love.

Author

Raynolds, Robert, 1902-1965.

Publication

New York, Harper [1959]

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Details

Description

192 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Essay on the nature of love, viewed as the road to true freedom and the pathway to God.

Subject

• Love
• Love
• love (emotion)

Note

• Essays.
• presentation copy to Berny Schaefer with inscription by the author.

Contents

• I. The common sense of Love -- that love is a poor man's beginning toward God -- that there is a common sense of love -- love in the common sense of life -- the way of love -- the word of love -- on the deepest reasons of the heart -- that to love is to dwell in the Holy -- II. The wisdom is the teacher of common sense -- that love is the teacher of wisdom -- that they are great denominators of man -- that a wise man's love shall comfort a stranger -- that love does not hurry the end -- that the wisdom of love may be offered to the next generation -- that we are born to a noble destiny -- on the mirth and solace of love -- that love offers and responds to spiritual greatness
• III. The enemies of love -- that there are enemies of love -- that fear of death is against love -- that fear of being despised and rejected is an enemy of love -- that fear of meaninglessness is an enemy of love -- on absence from God -- that dependence on magic is an enemy of love -- that doting on sex is an enemy of God -- that spoiling words in an enemy of love -- that love can take care of its enemies -- IV. The choice to love -- that love is a chosen act -- that love and grief are indissoluble -- on love and reason -- that the choice to love is to choose our highest work -- that love is being alive in the ceaseless present -- that patience, trust, and goodness are the choice of love -- that love does not have to win a point -- that moments of love establish the heart -- that the choice to love embraces justice -- that the choice to love endangers our way of living -- that leisure is a form of prayer -- that love is freedom
• v. The small parish of love -- that love builds a small parish in each heart -- that we are not alone -- that love transcends self-sufficiency -- that love beings at home -- that we are all included in love -- that love between two includes others -- that we shall choose to love one another -- that we shall ask another to love us -- on love in marriage -- that grace and devotion build our spiritual home -- that in a community of love there is no spiritual thieving -- that in a community of love we do not murder one another -- that we are in need of religious dialogue -- VI. The divine wonder of love -- that there is a divine wonder of love -- on the reality of religion -- that each of us is born into the profound and ceaseless presence of God -- that no man may diminish God -- that love is toward God -- that spiritual sanity is rooted in a sense of God -- that there are occasions of God -- some occasions of God in the life of a man -- that an occasion of God opens the way for human volition -- that to love is to be responsible to God -- that love blesses God.

LCCN

59010338

OCLC

• ocm00350688
• 350688
• SCSB-741407

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library