"When ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of Principle, it is the most incurable of passions."
Angela carter
"If two angels were to receive----at the same moment----a Commission from God, one to go down and rule earth's grandest empire of the world, the other to go and sweep the streets of the meanest, ugliest village of the world----it would be a matter of entire indifference to each which service fell to his lot; the post of ruler or the post of scavenger: for the joy of the angels lies in the obediance to God's will, and with equal joy they would lift a Lazarus in his rags to Abraham's bosom, or be the chariot of fire to carry an Elijah home."
---John Newton
2 Corinthians 10:3-6
2 Corinthians 10:3-63 For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war after the flesh: 4 (For the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the pulling down of strong holds 5 Casting down imaginations, and every high thing that exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing into captivity every thought to the obedience of Christ; 6 And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.