The only answer in this life, to the loneliness we are all bound to feel, is community.

How much did I hear of religion as a child? Very little, and yet my heart leaped when I heard the name of God. I do believe every soul has a tendency toward God.

Writing is hard work. But if you want to become a writer you will become one. Nothing will stop you.

Some have more capacity. Some proceed a few steps along the way. But Christ seemed to love all men. He desired all to be saved.

If we love each other enough, we will bear with each other’s faults and burdens.

The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about people is to love them.

We are not, most of us, capable of exalted emotion, save rarely.