To feed the hungry, clothe the naked and shelter the harborless without also trying to change the social order so that people can feed, clothe and shelter themselves is just to apply palliatives. It is to show a lack of faith in one’s fellows, their responsibilitie s as children of God, heirs of heaven.

Women think with their whole bodies

No matter how corrupt the Church may become, it carries within it the seeds of its own regeneration.

If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other’s faults and burdens.

What else do we all want, each one of us, except to love and be loved, in our families, in our work, in all our relationships?

Recording happiness made it last longer, we felt, and recording sorrow dramatized it and took away its bitterness; and often we settled some problem which beset us even while we wrote about it.

How much did I hear of religion as a child? Very little, and yet my heart leaped when I heard the name of God. I do believe every soul has a tendency toward God.