“ It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. ”
The world as it is is the world as God sees it, not as we see it. Our vision is distorted, not so much by the limits of finitude as by sin and ignorance. But the more we raise ourselves in the scale of being, the more will our ideas about God and the world correspond to reality.
~ William Ralph Inge
The statistics of suicide show that for non-combatants at least life is more interesting in war than in peace.
Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful or to discover something that is true.
Faith is an act of self-consecration in which the will the intellect and the affections all have their place.