No kind of riches is a passport to the Kingdom of Heaven

[soso]

Today's Reading

Since God is blessed, omnipotent, sovereign, and creative,

there is obviously a sense //in which happiness, strength, freedom, and fertility (whether of the mind or body),

wherever they appear in human life, constitute likenesses, and in that way proximities, to God.

But no none supposes that the possession of these gifts has any necessary connection with our satisfaction.

No kind of riches is a passport to the Kingdom of Heaven.

* blessed, blest. 1. to consecrate or render holy, beneficial, or prosperous by means of a religious rite.

               2. to give honour or glory to (a person or thing) as divine or holy.

* proximity means nearness or closeness.

* there is obviously a sense //in which [happiness, strength, freedom, and fertility] constitute likenesses,

* and in that way (constitute) proximities, to God.

From The Four Loves

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