idolatry

I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them.

Has what you do for God become more important to you than the Lord Himself?

When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it.

I've never found time to indulge more than a single ambition.

Reality is God-centered and all human beings are worshipers, whether or not they are conscious of this reality and its implications.

If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if you do not, but because you will be imperfect and unhappy.

She (his future wife) was so deep into the Lord's presence that I felt like an outsider.

Saint Augustine defined idolatry as worshiping what should be used or using what should be worshiped

The bottle of the creature cracks and dries up, but the well of the Creator never fails; happy is he who dwells at the well.

The particular creature we love is never God__ rival. What ends in apostasy is the worship of man, the cult of humanity.

We are hardwired for glory because we are hardwired for God.

God is the greatest thing that exists, ever has existed or ever will_for us to glory in anything else, would be sin, as there is nothing greater than God, there is no calling greater than praising God.

It has always been dangerous to institutionalize hope, and we no longer live in a society in which we will be allowed to institutionalize memory.

Nothing teaches us about the preciousness of the Creator as much as when we learn the emptiness of everything else.

The longing for Joy is in itself Joy. When he recalled when he had experienced Joy, he was, in that recollection, experiencing Joy anew, though he knew it not. Joy was not a state; it was an arrow pointing to something beyond all states, something objective yet unattainable _ at least in our earthly existence.

Adoration is a sign of an infant civilization.

I said to all the things that throng about the gateways of the senses: "Tell me of my God, since you are not He. Tell me something of Him." And they cried out in a great voice: "He made us." CS Lewis

This is a new nonnegotiable: to feel safe, you have to be connected.