Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.

I will rejoice the day when they say: This is right whether we all rot on top of each other or not, dear children, as we certainly may. Either practice restraint or be prepared for crowding.

Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.

Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see and they will not be a substitute for seeing.

There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.

She had observed that the more education they got, the less they could do. Their father had gone to a one-room schoolhouse through the eighth grade and he could do anything.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds emotion as well as reason and there are long periods in the lives of all of us, and of the saints, when the truth as revealed by faith is hideous, emotionally disturbing, downright repulsive. Witness the dark night of the soul in individual saints. Right now the whole world seems to be going through a dark night of the soul.