A strict allegory is like a puzzle with a solution: a great romance is like a flower whose smell reminds you of something you can't quite place. I th… - C. S. Lewis

"They would say," he answered, "that you do not fail in obedience through lack of love, but have lost love because you never attempted obedience."

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.

if you do one good deed your reward usually is to be set to do another and harder and better one.