What if the primary work of education was the transforming of our imagination rather than the saturation of our intellect?

Sometimes to be creative you have to give yourself permission to not be outstanding.

In short, liturgies make us certain kinds of people, and what defines us is what we love.

What if education wasn't first and foremost about what we know, but about what we love?

Whenever science attempts to legitimate itself, it is no longer scientific but narrative, appealing to an orienting myth that is not susceptible to scientific legitimation.

James Smith argues that liturgies “are compressed, performed narratives that recruit the imagination through the body.

Discipline is aimed at formation for a specific end, and that end is determined by our founding narrative.

Knowledge is so comforting, but so is mystery.

How strange it was to think that he, who such a short time ago dared not believe in the happiness of her loving him, now felt unhappy because she loved him too much!

Raise the roof, that I might see the stars To gain wisdom, to see things for what they are Please, I need proof

The worst thing about me is that I'll buy albums and put them away on the shelf and forget that I've got them.

Have Hope. Though clouds environs now, And gladness hides her face in scorn, Put thou the shadow from thy brow, - No night but hath its morn.

Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.

The laundry has its hands on my dirty shirts, sheets, towels and tablecloths, and who knows what tales they tell.

Woman is, by habit or nature, queen of the household. She is not designed to organize on a large scale.

Do not say that you have chaste minds if you have unchaste eyes, because an unchaste eye is the messenger of an unchaste heart.

Many of the things that seem impossible now will become realities tomorrow.