To insist that I am not forgiven is a kind of inverse arrogance.
Ideals are great as long as they don't get in the way of what we want to do.
Years ago I heard the Indian Jesuit Raimundo Panikkar say: Expect Nothing.
The man who says that he does not deserve his wife is probably right, but not for the reasons he thinks.
I see a good marriage as being like two tall trees growing beside each other, each nourishing the grace of the other.
If there were no nobodies, The somebodies would not have anybody, To convince that they were somebody, Except some other somebody, Who would not be convinced anyway.