Danier

“There is no straight line to Goodness, to Love, or to God. And thank God, Grace is always retroactive.”
― Richard Rohr, Eager to Love: The Alternative Way of Francis of Assisi

“One day, Nikos asked Father Makarios, “Do you still wrestle with the devil?”

Father Makarios said, “No. I used to wrestle with the devil all the time. But now I have grown old and tired, and the devil has grown old and tired with me. So I leave him alone and he leaves me alone.”

Nikos asked, “Then life is easy now?”

Father Makarios responded, “Oh, no. Life is much harder now. For now I wrestle with God.”

Nikos exclaimed, “You wrestle with God and hope to win?”

“No,” said Father Makarios, “I wrestle with God and hope to lose.”
― Nikos Kazantzakis, Report to Greco

“Man is the synthesis of the infinite and the finite, the temporal and the eternal, of freedom and necessity, in short it is a synthesis. A synthesis is a relation between two factors. So regarded, man is not yet a self.”
― Soren Kierkegaard, Fear and Trembling

“To discover the real you, look at what you spend time thinking about when no one is looking, when nothing is forcing you to think about anything in particular.”
― Timothy Keller, Prayer: Experiencing Awe and Intimacy with God