Life would be so much harder if I had to lie about who I was.
Few of us go through life without taking part in some kind of rite of passage.
Why do so many young people literally die to belong to fraternities, sororities, and other college social organizations? The answer is complicated, but here is a starting point: Ever since the medieval universities were founded, young people have done whatever it takes to gain acceptance, to break with their past lives, to achieve a sense of power, to carve out a society of their own that isn't quite what their tutors and teachers had in mind. In the United States, hazing and drinking have been endemic since colonial days.
Hazing is an extraordinary activity that, when it occurs often enough, becomes perversely ordinary as those who engage in it grow desensitized to its inhumanity.
God does not begin by asking us about our ability, but only about our availability, and if we then prove our dependability, he will increase our capability.
Honorable industry always travels the same road with enjoyment and duty, and progress is altogether impossible without it.
Many of the insights of the saint stem from their experience as sinners.
People are rarely diabolic or bent enthusiastically on evil. As a rule, they are only weak; they cannot resist temptation and thus give way to their evil drives.