Great Throughts Treasury
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Friedrich von Hügel, formally Baron Friedrich Maria Aloys Franz Karl Freiherr von Hugel
Austrian Roman Catholic Influential Layman, Religious Writer, Modernist Theologian and Christian Apologist
"Now there is no doubt that the prayer of quiet, that a certain formless recollection and loving feeding upon the sense and presence of God, as here and now, is a most legitimate prayer."
"Religion has never made me happy; its no use shutting your eyes to the fact that the deeper you go, the more alone you will find yourself… Religion has never made me comfy. I have been in the deserts ten years. All deepened life is deepened suffering, deepened dreariness, deepened joy. Suffering and joy. The final note of religion is joy."
"The golden rule is, to help those we love to escape from us."
"Difficult or easy, [it is faith alone that], if and when you can win it (you have not got much of it yet), all your very faults and tumults, all your pains and disappointments, all your surprises and shocks, can and will contribute to build up a joy fathom-deep, substantial, buoying up a naturally melancholy, immensely sensitive, easily self-devouring, self-destructive, nature."
"The deeper we get into reality, the more numerous will be the questions we cannot answer."
"Caring is everything; nothing matters but caring."