…victory that comes from the sacrifice on an innocent isn’t a victory. It’s the end of us.

The opposite of faith isn’t doubt. The opposite of faith is certainty.

Your soul is bigger than your programming.

We are this world. Its next generation. If you’re not trying to save us, then what exactly are you trying to save?

Ester would tell her to dance faster, leap higher, to laugh out loud with all the breath in lungs. That’s what the dead would tell the living, if they could—to grab hold of joy whenever it comes.

Where there’s no free will, there’s no sin.

Only through sacrifice can Genesis survive.

…one world’s poison might be another’s salvation

Silently he traces out a new constellation, one only he knows. One with Noemi at the very heart.

This is the last time Abel lets the humans make the plans.

Abel. I can’t let you…sell your body.”“The transaction is closer to a rental.

All I ask is that you not be naive about how the government works when it decides to go after its prey.

I was born optimistic...I was laughing from the beginning of my life.

That's all I want, to keep losing myself.

If there's a job to be done, I always ask the busiest man in my parish to take it on and it gets done.

If you have a story of grace, then you have a story of grace to tell.

One person can take papers, photograph them without getting excited, return them, and give them away without any scruples; while someone else has to overcome an enormous obstacle.

Even as a child, I knew what I didn't want. I didn't want to wear red lipstick.

America does not need to continue to have regime change throughout the world, nation-building.

Great leaders state out loud what they intend to do and in doing so, they get things done.

No matter how difficult your situation may be you have to follow the Lord of the Second Advent completely.