“Love should not make us blind to faults, nor familiarity make us too ready to blame the shortcomings we see.”
“All passions make us commit faults, but love makes us commit the most ridiculous ones.”
“We should conduct ourselves not as if we ought to live for the body, but as if we could not live without it. Our too great love for it makes us restless with fears, burdens us with cares, and exposes us to insults.”
“(What makes his world so hard to see clearly is not its strangeness but its usualness).Familiarity can blind you too.”
“Neither love nor terror makes one blind: indifference makes one blind.”
“How we see God is a direct reflection of how we see ourselves. If God brings to mind mostly fear and blame, it means there is too much fear and blame welled inside us. If we see God as full of love and compassion, so are we.”