The successive series of stratified formations are piled on one another, almost like courses of masonry.

The field of the Geologist's inquiry is the Globe itself, ... [and] it is his study to decipher the monuments of the mighty revolutions and convulsions it has suffered.

No conclusion is more fully established, than the important fact of the total absence of any vestiges of the human species throughout the entire series of geological formations.

Maybe God created the desert so that man could appreciate the date trees

the book is intended to show how it is possible to live in and be enlarged by loss, even as we continue to experience it.

Solitude is separate experience.

A broken heart is never a tragedy. Only untimely death is a tragedy.

For the most part my friends can always be more entertaining than the tube ever can be.

There're a lot of old religious beliefs that keep us stuck. Because we're afraid of the answers, a lot of us just don't ask the questions of God.

Every thought is an afterthought.

CD4 being the level of the lymphocyte that indicates the level of your immune function.

A lot of women don't know how to love because there's deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons.

Jesus is all we have; he is all we need and all we want. We are shipwrecked on God and stranded on omnipotence!