joy

"Indeed, if we consider the unblushing promises of reward and the staggering nature of the rewards promised in the Gospels, 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.”

- C. S. Lewis in “The Weight of Glory”

Proverbs 21:9

"Better to live on a corner of the roof than share a house with a quarrelsome wife."

Wendell Berry

"Peace is not the result of war any more than love is the result of hate or generosity is the result of greed."