Why should your heart not dance?

Through pride the devil became the devil. Pride leads to every vice, it's the complete anti-God state of mind.

When Christ died, He died for you individually just as much as if you had been the only person in the world.

Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already.

It is after you have realized that there is a real Moral Law, and a Power behind the law, and that you have broken that law and put yourself wrong with that Power -- it is after all this, and not a moment sooner, that Christianity begins to talk.

The change which the writing wrought in me (and of which I did not write) was only a beginning; only to prepare me for the gods' surgery. They used my own pen to probe my wound.

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak.