Still anyone who trusts a serpent deserves its bite. The wise see a creature for what it is, not what it says it may be.

I knew what it was to yearn for a life so distant it seemed that it had never been anything more than a dream.

Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen.

Even as a small child, I understood that woman had secrets, and that some of these were only to be told to daughters. In this way we were bound together for eternity.

But what we are given is taken as well, so that we know God's glory comes to us from His will alone.

Our rest is formed by our waking life and our waking life is formed by our sorrows.

He wanted pain, I saw that in him, and what a man wants he will often manage to find.

I loved him even now, as he took a knife to my throat, as I drowned in blood, as I whispered "Cousin, you were wrong. We were born to live.

I must keep my head and not give in to desire, for desire is what causes women to drown.

But in battle you cannot tell another when it is his time to enter the World-to-Come, nor is it possible to keep any man in this world when he wishes to leave it behind.

Pain was something to get used to, to inure yourself against. I would rather hurt myself than be hurt by someone else, and so I took up this practice with a sense of purpose and without remorse.

And I felt like such a failure. I thought: I can't even do mental illness properly.

... the rules of transcendence insist that you will not advance even one inch closer to divinity as long as you cling to even one last seductive thread of blame.

There is nothing unpremeditated, nothing neglected by God. His unsleeping eye beholds all things.

I wept to think that life went on even when so much had been lost, that rain still fell and myrtle grew between the rocks.

None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago.

Powerful groups with anti-Christian worldviews dominate major media and major educational institutions.

Knowing how to market yourself and your press materials is key.

The world being illusive, one must be deluded in some way if one is to triumph in it.

No man can make good during working hours who does the wrong thing outside of working hours.

You never feel better than when you start feeling good after you've been feeling bad.