This book was not written because I wanted to offer a supreme model to the man who struggles; I wanted to show him that he must not fear pain, temptation or death - because all three can be conquered, all three have already been conquered. Christ suffered pain, and since then pain has been sanctified. Temptation fought until the very last moment to lead him astray, and Temptation was defeated. Christ died on the Cross, and at that instant death was vanquished forever.

Reach what you cannot

You have your brush, you have your colors, you paint the paradise, then in you go.

If a woman sleeps alone it puts a shame on all men. God has a very big heart, but there is one sin He will not forgive. If a woman calls a man to her bed and he will not go.

As you walk, you cut open and create that river bed into which the stream of your descendants shall enter and flow.

God sends rain, but He also sends hoods; and when the rain grows heavier, He sends a cave.

The heart unites whatever the mind separates, pushes on beyond the arena of necessity and transmutes the struggle into love.