"Heaven" is by nature what one has not made oneself and
cannot make oneself; in scholastic language it was said to be,
as grace, a "donum indebitum et superadditum naturae"
("an unowed gift added on top of nature"). As fulfilled love, heaven
can always only be granted to man; but hell is loneliness of the man
who will not accept it, who declines the status of beggar and
withdraws into itself.
Thursday, June 26, 2008
Introduction To Christianity - pg. 239
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