The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us.

Daughter, I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such thing as Luck. There is something about all this that I do not understand: but if ever we need to know it, you may be sure that we shall.

A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse.

Christianity thinks of human individuals not as mere members of a group or items in a list, but as organs in a body-different from one another and each contributing what no other could.

They Open A Door And Enter A World

At the very least, they can be persuaded that the bodily position makes no difference to their prayers; for they constantly forget[...]that they are animals and that whatever their bodies do affects their souls.

Goodness is, so to speak, itself; badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled.