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As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation.

When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.

Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation.

Everything we do these days - our lust for ever more comfort, pleasure, and distraction, our refusal to engage with the mandates of reality, our fidelity to cults of technology and limitless growth, our narcissistic national exceptionalism - all of this propels us toward the realm where souls abandon all hope.

Our pleasance here is all vain glory, This false world is but transitory.

It makes me so desperately sad to witness just how unforgivably wretched our world has become.

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.

We are ever striving after what is forbidden, and coveting what is denied us.

Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.