"Given that God is endless Beauty and Joy and Love, seeking anything aside from Him and for its own sake is pure nonsense. Preferring something finite to God is an insult to Him. 'He who loves something together with God,' says our Saint, 'undoubtedly makes little of God, for he weighs in the balance with God an object far distant from God'... The principle here is readily seen even on the human level. A husband who prefers his bowling to his wife insults her, and a wife who chooses her own vanity or comfort to her husband's well-being insults him. Immeasurably more demeaning is the preference for a finite frill to purest Love."
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