“It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased.”
― The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses
― The Weight of Glory, and Other Addresses
“Of course you are really right," he said. "You take art as a means not as an end. That is strict theology, but it's unusual to find an agnostic believing it.”
― Brideshead Revisited
― Brideshead Revisited
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