Why is it that reality, when set down untransposed in a book, sounds false?
The feeding of those that are hungry is a form of contemplation.
A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.
The essential thing to know about God is that God is Good. All the rest is secondary.
We must prefer real hell to an imaginary paradise.
One has only the choice between God and idolatry. There is no other possibility. For the faculty of worship is in us, and it is either directed somewhere into this world, or into another.