Anger is the fluid love bleeds when cut.

We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness.

They Open A Door And Enter A World

It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.

Love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people.

Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self.

I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death.