Baron friedrich von hugel quotes
Friedrich von Hügel Quotes ..
You think you swallow things when they ought to swallow you.
Letters to a Niece
From Dad. It was nice to see some of his annotations in the margins as well.
"Let us rest content.
We have not got to invent God, nor to hold him. He holds us. We shall never be able to explain God, though we can apprehend him, more and more through the spiritual life."
p 8
"Drop things, always keep on dropping and dropping.
Von Hügel writes: “People put God so far away, in a sort of mist somewhere.
My religion, my illness, suffering, and life have taught me that. Always drop things. Don't chatter to yourself--you can't hear God if you do. We need not try to conceive God: he attends to all that."
p 10
"I want this little scribble to reach you on your starting your packing-fortnight, my very dear Niece....
What is it that I would have you quietly set your mind and heart on, during that in itself lonesome and dreary bit of your road, Child? Why this, Dear! You see, all we do has a double-relatedness. It is a link or links of a chain that stre