Strange, the workings of the heart. One could go on for years, habituated to loss, reconciled to it, and then, in a moment's unwary thought, the pain resurfaced, sharp and raw as a fresh wound.

There was always a way, when one knew what one wanted.

As for will, woman should be considered superior to man for Eve ate of the apple for love of knowledge and learning, but Adam ate of it merely because she asked him.

Who was to know what went on in a person's heart? A wise woman kept her own counsel.

What is life? The joy of the blessed, the sorrow of the sad, and a search for death. And what is death? An inevitable happening, an uncertain pilgrimage, the tears of the living, the thief of man.

Heed my words, daughter, if you ever mean to be happy: Never give yourself to a man.

To marry is to surrender everything--not only your body but your pride, your independence, even your life.

She did not care about anything very much. Hope was gone. She existed that was all.

She had discovered that her love of knowing was not unnatural or sinful but the direct consequence of a God-given ability to reason.

This was the price for the the strange life she had chosen, but she had gone into it with eyes open, and there was no profit in regret.

Why, she wondered, do we always reserve our worst hatred for our own?

Cosmic Ordering success sticks to you like mud to a blanket.

I'm pretty sure my addiction to reading has just reached a whole new level.

Not only does depression take away our spiritual and emotional health, it also undermines our physical health.

Mysteries are facts that haven't been formalized.

To its critics, the study of theology distracts from real life. But, at its best, theology inspires and informs precisely the committed and caring ministry.

Praise the green earth. Chance has appointed her home, workshop, larder, middenpit. Her lousy skin scabbed here and there by cities provides us with name and nation.

What you feel is important may not be what the director feels is important.

Don't blame yourself for the declines, because one day you will credit yourself for the increases.

Here in my heart, that is where you will be; you will be with me, here in my heart. No distance can keep us apart, long as you are here in my heart.

But the last time the Cubs won a National League pennant Was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan