• From The Screwtape Letters—a fictional work written from a senior demon’s perspective, advising a junior tempter.

    You must bring him to a condition in which he can practise self-examination for an hour without discovering any of those facts about himself which are perfectly clear to anyone who has ever lived in the same house with him or worked in the same office.

    The Screwtape Letters
    C. S. Lewis

  • From The Screwtape Letters—a fictional work written from a senior demon’s perspective, advising a junior tempter.

    Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy’s will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys.

    The Screwtape Letters
     C. S. Lewis

  • In our lives, nothing is as valuable as friendship. Countless good things may exist, but without friendship, even wealth and luxury lack true benefit. There’s no possession equal to friendship, and nothing worse than being hated.

    —St. John Chrysostom

  • If, as we grow older, we scrutinize our own past at the expense of “problems,” it is simply because we handle memories more readily than ideas.

    The Trouble With Being Born
    Emil Cioran

  • We do not envy those who have the capacity to pray, whereas we are filled with envy of the possessors of goods, of those who know wealth and fame. Strange that we resign ourselves to someone’s salvation and not to what fugitive advantages he may enjoy.

    The Trouble With Being Born
    Emil Cioran

  • More than once, I have managed to leave my room, for if I had stayed there I could not be sure of being able to resist some sudden resolution. The street is more reassuring, you think less about yourself there,

    The Trouble With Being Born
    Emil Cioran

  • I have all the defects of other people and yet everything they do seems to me inconceivable.

    The Trouble With Being Born
    Emil Cioran

  • Ama nesciri, says the Imitation of Christ. Love to be unknown. We are happy with ourselves and with the world only when we conform to this precept.

    The Trouble With Being Born
    Emil Cioran

  • When you draw closer to God, your desire to be known diminishes.

    —Fr. Mina Dimitri

  • The same feeling of not belonging, of futility, wherever I go: I pretend interest in what matters nothing to me,

    The Trouble With Being Born
    Emil Cioran