Wow, in that quote Marion certainly has hit on the profundity of godly love, or at least how we can apprehend (vs. comprehend)it in our finite states. Can you give a little biographical blurb on him on your blog and I’ll syndicate it?

Also, I’ve yet to read your entries on torture (that kind of sounds strange, lol) but I’m looking forward to it tonight.

Later.

“Love does not suffer from the unthinkable or from the absence of conditions, but is reinforced by them. For what is peculiar to love consists in the fact that it gives itself… love does not pretend to comprehend, since it does not mean at all to take; it postulates its own giving, giving where the giver strictly coincides with the gift, without any restriction, reservation, or mastery.

Thus love gives itself only in abandoning itself, ceaselessly transgressing the limits of its own gift, so as to be transplanted outside of itself. The consequence is that this transference of love outside of itself, without end or limit, at once prohibits fixation on a response, a representation, an idol.”