Accepting oneself does not preclude an attempt to become better.
Those who have no absolute values cannot let the relative remain merely relative; they are always raising it to the level of the absolute.
She felt that she would have to be much more than just a doctor or an engineer. She would have to be a saint.
The truth is not distorted here, but rather a distortion is used to get at truth.
Christianity is a strangely cheery religion.
I am a Catholic not like someone else would be a Baptist or a Methodist, but like someone else would be an atheist.