“No sacrifice which a lover would make for his beloved is too great for us to make for our enemy.”
“Societies never know it, but the war of an artist with his society is a lover's war, and he does, at his best, what lovers do, which is to reveal the beloved to himself and, with that revelation, to make freedom real.”
“To truly defeat an enemy, no sacrifice is too great.”
“It is not so much the greatness of our troubles, as the littleness of our spirit, which makes us complain.”
“If Jesus Christ be God and died for me, then no sacrifice can be too great for me to make for Him.”
“I was completely and irrevocably in lust; which tends to make a person impassive to others’ pain. Love makes us compassionate. Lust makes us deaf to all but the lover.”