She was here on earth to grasp the meaning of its wild enchantment. Doctor Zhivago , Boris Pasternak. A religion can no more afford to degrade its Devil than to degrade its God. For offerings can be made to those birds of prey, the fallen angels, in more ways than one. Confessions , Saint Augustine.
Fear is servile until it is set free by love.
I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. It is not the gift that is to blame for the use to which it is put. For if you notice, it is not because of his beauty but because of his own beauty that Satan is said to have lost his wisdom. There is a world of difference between the joy of hope that comes from faith and the shallow happiness that I was looking for. Confessions , Saint Augustine.