She wrote, “I think that the Church is the only thing that is going to make the terrible world we are coming to endurable; the only thing that makes the Church endurable is that it is somehow the body of Christ and that on this we are fed.”
“I’ve never been to America,” he said. “But I’ve read that you tend to put people on a pedestal or tear them down. They’re heroes or traitors. But man is by nature flawed, and he has to live with the fact that he contradicts himself. That’s what makes him a man. Otherwise, he would be a cuckoo clock.”
― Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets
― Fatherland: A Memoir of War, Conscience, and Family Secrets
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