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“The ability to love authentically, not great intellectual capacity, constitutes the deepest part of a personality. It is no accident that the greatest commandment is to love. Authentic love leads us outside ourselves to affirming others: devoting oneself to the cause of man, to people, and, above all, to God. Marriage makes sense…if it gives one the opportunity for such love, if it evokes the ability and necessity of such loving, if it draws one out of the shell of individualism (various kinds) and egocentrism. It is”
― George Weigel, Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II

“Philosophy makes literature clear, literature makes philosophy real.”
― Peter Kreeft, The Philosophy of Tolkien: The Worldview Behind The Lord of the Rings

“A mortal, Frodo, who keeps one of the Great Rings, does not die, but he does not grow or obtain more life, he merely continues, until at last every minute is a weariness. And if he often uses the Ring to make himself invisible, he fades: he becomes in the end invisible permanently, and walks in the twilight under the eye of the Dark Power that rules the Rings.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

“Patience is the possession of the soul, enabling the will to keep the soul in peace, and to regulate its actions and desires by the light of truth and justice, with a constant view to its final end. Impatience is the beginning of every movement that takes the soul away from God, and so from its self-possession.”
― William Bernard Ullathorne, Patience and Humility: A Handbook for Christians