Sensible fathers and mothers, when their children marry, go back to the old days and renew their youth.

Because of course she had known she must go. She always did the thing because in obedience lay the integrity that God asked of her. If anyone had asked her what she meant by integrity she would not have been able to tell them but she had seen it once like a picture in her mind, a root going down into the earth and drinking deeply there. No one was really alive without that root.

[I]f you believe in God omnipresent, then you must believe everything that comes into your life, person or event, must have something of God in it to be experienced and loved; not hated.

The perfect moment, once lost, is not easily found again.

Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing, and far more valuable to us than faith that has never been tested.

The elements were "seeking" each other in rage and confusion, and in the fury of the conflict boastful man was utterly humiliated, sucked down, drowned.

He grinned at her, and she grinned at him, and it seemed to Maria that suddenly the sun came out.