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I am convinced that the influence of an army of godly women will be incalculable--in our homes, our churches, and our culture. Will you be one of those women?

Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking.

I love Wingfoot; I'm a member of Wingfoot. It's a great course.

Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

The Bible has been the Magna Carta of the poor and of the oppressed. The human race is not in a position to dispense with it.

Can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of people that these liberties are the gift of God?

Jesus lived and died in vain if He did not teach us to regulate the whole of life by the eternal law of love. Gandhi, quoted in Merton, p. 38

There are ways that seem to men to be good, the end whereof is in the depths of hell.

then you obey my commandments, which I command you this day, that you love the Lord your God and serve Him with all your heart, and with all your soul:

At Cincinnati, where we arrived about dawn, I asked the Traveller's Aid girl the name of some Catholic churches, and got in a taxi to go to St. Francis Xavier's, where

I, who had always been anti-naturalistic in art, had been a pure naturalist in the moral order. No wonder my soul was sick and torn apart: but now the bleeding wound was drawn together by the notion of Christian virtue, ordered to the union of the soul with God.

You did not invent marriage. God did.