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“We may give our human loves the unconditional allegiance which we owe only to God. Then they become gods: then they become demons. Then they will destroy us, and also destroy themselves.”
― Lewis Carroll

“St. John's saying that God is love has long been balanced in my mind against the remark of a modern author (M. Denis de Rougemont) that "love ceases to be a demon only when he ceases to be god"; which of course can be re-stated in the form "begins to be a demon the moment he begins to be a god." This balance seems to me an indispensable safeguard. If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God”
― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves

“The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define.”
― Lewis Carroll

“Conquest of the self demands the hardest of struggles”
― Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ