Remember that every science is based upon an abstraction. An abstraction is taking a point of view or looking at things under a certain aspect or from a particular angle.

One function of the angels is illumination, and the other function is that of being a guardian.

Freedom does not mean that right to do whatever we please, but rather to do as we ought. The right to do whatever we please reduces freedom to a physical power and forgets that freedom is a moral power.

Many married women who have deliberately spurned the "hour" of childbearing are unhappy and frustrated. They never discovered the joys of marriage because they refused to surrender to the obligation of their state. In saving themselves, they lost themselves!

The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.

Once a man ceases to be of service to his neighbor, he begins to be a burden to him.

Temptation is not a sin but playing with temptation invites sin.