Now suppose both death and hell were utterly defeated. Suppose the fight was fixed. Suppose God took you on a crystal ball trip into your future and you saw with indubitable certainty that despite everything — your sin, your smallness, your stupidity — you could have free for the asking your whole crazy heart’s deepest desire: heaven, eternal joy. Would you not return fearless and singing? What can earth do to you, if you are guaranteed heaven? To fear the worst earthly loss would be like a millionaire fearing the loss of a penny — less, a scratch on a penny.

The closer we are to God, to divine attributes - such as absolute truth, goodness, and beauty - the more we wonder. When we separate ourselves from truth, goodness, and beauty, we lose wonder and become cynical. The Enlightenment was basically the narrowing of our vision to a purely scientific, empirical, rationalistic worldview, screwing down the manhole covers on us so we became squinting underground creatures.

Peace is a mark of the Holy Spirit.

Humility is the marriage bond of Heaven. Pride is the frigidity of Hell.

No emotion, merely as an emotion, is a sin, because we cannot directly control the arising of an emotion in our soul.

If you truly love God and His will, then doing what you will, will, in fact, be doing what God wills.

Humility is not an exaggeratedly low opinion of yourself. Humility is self-forgetfulness.