Belief is a kind of trap, because if you belief something you are forever precluded from believing its opposite.
A Doctrine is like a tree, for it needs to be irrefutable, and to become irrefutable it needs storms, doubts, worms, and nastiness to reveal the nature and the strength of the seedling.
Doctrine is the framework of life; it is the skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded out by the living graces of a holy life. It is only the lean creature whose bones become offensive.
Expectation is best measured against real potentialities — you can't take more out of a bag than what's in it
Expectation is wise to keep realistic — You cannot get milk from a male buffalo, nor butter by churning water
Expectation is the secret of the persecution of the Jews, Christians and Mohammedans by one another.
15 concepts in this pillow book.