Heidi Ladner

“You heard him say it? 'Pain's the only evil I know about.' You heard that?"
The monk nodded solemnly.
"And that society is the only thing that determines whether an act is wrong or not? That too?"
"Yes."
"Dearest God, how did those two heresies get back into the world after all this time? Hell has limited imaginations down there. 'The serpent deceived me, and I did eat.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz

“If you have so many defects, why are you surprised to find defects in others?”
― Josemaría Escrivá

“290    To reform. Every day a little. This has to be your constant task if you really want to become a saint.”
― Josemaría Escrivá, The Way

“If you try to save wisdom until the world is wise, Father, the world will never have it.”
― Walter M. Miller Jr., A Canticle for Leibowitz