The more pride we have, the more other people’s pride irritates us

I wish they would remember that the charge to Peter was "Feed my sheep", not "Try experiments on my rats", or even "Teach my performing dogs new tricks".

Once a man is united to God, how could he not live forever?

The Son of God became a man to enable men to become sons of God." ~ Mere Christianity, By C. S. Lewis

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It needs not a map, but a history, and if I don't stop writing that history at some quite arbitrary point, there's no reason why I should ever stop.

Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed.

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