I don't think there's anything more tiring ... than expecting people who don't turn up.

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.

I have known him nearly all my life, and I am going to marry him, so that there won't ever be a time when I shan't know him.

For she had discovered that as well as the evil web there was another. This too bound spirits together, but not in a tangle, it was a patterned web and one could see the silver pattern when the sun shone upon it. It seemed much frailer than the dark tangle, that had a hideous strength, but it might not be so always, not in the final reckoning. (The Child from the Sea)

[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.

"Most of us tend to belittle all suffering except our own," said Mary. "I think it's fear. We don't want to come too near in case we're sucked in and have to share it".

A well-trained dog is like religion, it sets the deserving at their ease and is a terror to evildoers.