On Pride: This sickness is most dangerous when it succeeds in looking like humility. When a proud man thinks he is humble his case is hopeless.

But precisely this illusion that everything is "clear" is what is blinding us all. It is a serious temptation, and it is a subtle form of pride and worldly love of power and revenge.

...love triumphs, at least in this life, not by eliminating evil once for all, but by resisting and overcoming it anew every day.

I see no contradiction between Buddhism and Christianity ... I intend to become as good a Buddhist as I can.

I believe that the desire to please you does in fact please you.

To desire Him to be merciful to us is to acknowledge Him as God. To seek His pity when we deserve no pity is to ask Him to be just with a justice so holy that it knows no evil and shows mercy to everyone who does not fly from Him in despair.

Good moral actions are not enough. Everything in us, from the very depths, must be cleansed and reordered.