I feel as if I am being left out, as though I’m some straggler and people can’t quite remember to stay back for me.

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters.

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm.

Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.

A man can know his father, or his son, and there might still be nothing between them but loyalty and love and mutual incomprehension.

. . . there is an absolute disjunction between our Father's love and our deserving.

That is to say, I pray for you. And there's an intimacy in it. That's the truth.

It seems to me people tend to forget that we are to love our enemies, not to satisfy some standard of righteousness but because God their Father loves them.

When something ought to be true then it proves to be a very powerful truth.

It seems to me some people just go around lookin' to get their faith unsettled. That has been the fashion for the last hundred years or so.

I think the attempt to defend belief can unsettle it, in fact, because there is always an inadequacy in argument about ultimate things.

I'm not stubborn. My way is just better.

Psalm 37:44 Delight thyself also in the LORD: and he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.

The beginning of wisdom starts from persistently living up to your responsibilities in life, despite your circumstances.

A power above all human responsibility ought to be above all human attainment.

Time is short. Eternity is long. It is only reasonable that this short life be lived in the light of eternity.

Make sure you have your own mask on, before helping others with theirs.

I don't tell anybody else what to wear. I would never dream of it.

The sharpest sting of adversity it borrows from our own impatience.

It's a sin for a writer to go looking for camels to put into his or her pages. I only want details that are the story.

I think we're in a disposable world and 'Stairway to Heaven' is one of the things that hasn't quite been thrown away yet.