Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect.

Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.

I prefer being honest to being 'honest to God.'

Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good - above all, that we are better than someone else - I think we may be sure that we are being acted on, not by God, but by the devil.

We must get over wanting to be needed-this is the hardest of all temptations to resist

In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.

We read to know we are not alone.