“We are made most specifically by the things we cannot bear to do”

“Jesus is our strength, and what we cannot do or bear, He can both do and bear in us.”

“We can bear the sun not to set, but we cannot bear the sun not to rise!”

“When we cannot bear to be alone, it means we do not properly value the only companion we will have from birth to death - ourselves.”

“All that is great cannot be possessed - and that is one of the most foolish things man goes on doing. We want to possess.”

“This is the fix we are in. If the universe is not governed by an absolute goodness, then all our efforts are in the long run hopeless. But if it is, then we are making ourselves enemies to that goodness every day, and are not in the least likely to do any better tomorrow, and so our case is hopeless again. We cannot do without it, and we cannot do with it. God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from. He is our only possible ally, and we have made ourselves His enemies. Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again. They are still only playing with religion.”