“The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.”
“Discipline is the highest of all virtues. Only so may strength and desire be counterbalanced and the endeavors of man bear fruit.”
“But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.”
“To love with understanding and without understanding. To love blindly, and to folly. To see only what is loveable. To think only of these things. To see the best in everyone around, their virtues rather than their faults. To see Christ in them!”
“Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.”
“To try to understand another human being, to grapple for his ultimate depths, that is the most dangerous of human endeavors.”