“I decided that if I was worth anything as a person, I ought to be able to let her be with what it was she had to be with then: not urge her to fight it if she was tired… — Roland Merullo Copy Share Image
“Now, at a point when the entire world seems mired in violence and cynicism, when the Church is shrinking, the environment being poisoned, when good souls are giving up hope, when greed and bitterness seem to be gaining at the… — Roland Merullo Copy Share Image
The number of poor, and poorly prepared, students who succeed in college and beyond undercuts the simplistic notion that economic or educational disadvantage is… — Roland Merullo Copy Share Image
The past shouts at you, the ugly words or actions echo down across the years. — Roland Merullo Copy Share Image
“All-American and proud of it. Too rich and soft and flawed to make any spiritual mark on anyone other than my own dog and… — Roland Merullo Copy Share Image
“I thought I heard a cow mooing in Seese's back yard. Later on, later down the road, as they say, I would learn that… — Roland Merullo Copy Share Image
“There are some kinds of sorrow that words can never reach, certain kinds of things you can never hold in the box of your… — Roland Merullo Copy Share Image
“You keep telling yourself it will be different. Year after year, time after time, you keep telling yourself things might change. It's what makes… — Roland Merullo Copy Share Image
“...if we somehow find the courage to go directly into the discomfort - even the discomfort of illness, pain, old age, and death -… — Roland Merullo Copy Share Image
“some point you had to risk the ridicule of the mob, of your own internalized voices, and try to see clearly what had been… — Roland Merullo Copy Share Image
“Simply by being your absolute, most genuine self in every interaction of every hour, you provide a great and rare service on this earth.” — Roland Merullo Copy Share Image
“You ask a certain question again and again, in a sincere fashion, and the answer appears. But, in my experience, at least, that answer… — Roland Merullo Copy Share Image
“I’m not great at talking to people. I have all these thoughts bunching up inside my head and then they come out like a… — Roland Merullo Copy Share Image
