QUOTATION: Freedom

The heart is free which is held by no love other than the love of God. 

--St. Bonaventure.

QUOTATION: Love and Suffering

There is no living in love without suffering.

--Thomas a Kempis, The Imitation of Christ, 3:5

QUOTATION: Avoiding the Hard Questions

Men, not having been able to cure death, misery and ignorance, have imagined to make themselves happy by not thinking of these things.

--Blaise Pascal, Pensees, 2

QUOTATION: The Original Evil

This then is the original evil: man regards himself as his own light, and turns away from that light which would make man himself a light if he would set his heart on it.

--St. Augustine, City of God, 14:13

QUOTATION: The Worldly

Leave the worldly to their world.

--St. Francis de Sales, Letters to Persons in the World, 1:10