Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend.
Neurotics would like to sleep all the time, and to be awakened only when there is good news.
Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.
I've been hiding from God, and I'm appalled to find how easy it is.
Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.
Life is a mixed blessing, which we vainly try to unmix.