Please,' she said, 'You're so beautiful. You may eat me if you like. I'd rather be eaten by you than fed by anyone else.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

You can't go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.

It's always winter but it's never Christmas.

Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear

If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.

The human qualities of the raw materials show through. Naivety, error, contradiction, even (as in the cursing Psalms) wickedness are not removed. The total result is not "the Word of God" in the sense that every passage in itself, gives impeccable science or history. It carries the Word of God.