“Is it the gods who set this fire in our hearts, or do we each make our fierce desire into a god?”

“Euryalus, is it
the gods who put this fire in our minds,
or is it that each man's relentless longing
becomes a god to him?”

“At the heart of our universe, each soul exists for God, in our Lord.”

“We set down feasts for each other and treated our love with tongues of fire. Our bodies were fields of wonder to us.”

“If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.”

“To be simple is to accept the essence of the message and not try to twist it or adapt it to our own ideas. To be simple we must desire to remain in the image of God. We must not be so complex that we make God into our image! Simplicity is dying to self, an emptying.”

“God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.”

“The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.”

“Our talents are the gift that God gives to us… What we make of our talents is our gift back to God”

“There is a reason God limits our days.'
'Why?'
'To make each one precious.”