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

Gratitude exclaims, very properly, 'How good of God to give me this.'

He who has not forgiven an enemy has never yet tasted one of the most sublime enjoyments of life.

Before we can be cured we must want to be cured. Those who really wish for help will get it; but for many modern people even the wish is difficult.

But suppose you struggle through to the good and find that it also is dreadful? How if food itself turns out to be the very thing you can't eat, and home the very place you can't live, and your very comforter the person who makes you uncomfortable? Then, indeed, there is no rescue possible: the last card has been played.

What do they teach them at these schools?

A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers-including even his power to revolt...It is like the scent of a flower trying to destroy the flower.