The Christian idea of 'putting on Christ' is the whole of Christianity.

It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.

but who can feel ugly, when their heart feels joy

God, who foresaw your tribulation, has specially armed you to go through it, not without pain but without stain.

We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it. That is why we have peopled air and earth and water with gods and goddesses, and nymphs and elves.

I begin to suspect that the world is divided not only into the happy and the unhappy, but into those who like happiness and those who, odd as it seems, really don't.

The only people who hate escapism are jailers.