Fear of the devil is one way of doubting God.
The highest virtue here may be least in another world.
To love life through our labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secrets.
Jesus was not sent here to teach the people to build magnificent churches and temples amidst the cold wretched huts and dismal hovels. He came to make the human heart a temple, and the soul an altar, and the mind a priest.
Strange, the desire for certain pleasures is a part of my pain.
Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need.