Luci’s Reviews > Holiness for Housewives: And Other Working Women > Status Update

"Work cannot survive a completely jobless diet: it becomes either flat or fussy. "

"Contemplation is all very well--in fact it is the better part (Mary of Mary and Martha reference), and there is no effective substitute for it--but its fires must be banked up on the slower embers of doctrine."

"The only kind of sanctity that is of any use is God's kind. And very often this kind cannot be seen either by the contemporary world, which we are always so eager to impress, or even by ourselves."