You explain nothing, O poet, but thanks to you all things become explicable.
Now I know that at the heart of the universe is joy.
We must not seek happiness in peace, but in conflict.
Jesus did not come to explain away suffering or remove it. He came to fill it with His Presence.
Time: all things consume it, love alone makes use of it.
When man tries to imagine Paradise on earth, the immediate result is a very respectable Hell.