The more devils we have within us, the more chance we have to form angels. - Nikos Kazantzakis

When everything goes wrong, what a joy to test your soul and see if it has endurance and courage! An invisible and all-powerful enemy — some call him God, others the Devil, seem to rush upon us to destroy us; but we are not destroyed.

To SEE and accept the boundaries of the human mind without vain rebellion, and in these severe limitations to work ceaselessly without protest — this is where man's first duty lies.

God confronts me with terror and love — for I am His only hope — and says: "This Ecstatic, who gives birth to all things, who rejoices in them all and yet destroys them, this Ecstatic is my Son!"