All we are asked to bear we can bear.

[Salvation] is a curious process of divine burglary. The first thing to be wrested from one by a God who said 'Thou shalt not steal' is one's good opinion of one's self.

[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.

Don't waste hate on pink geranium.

Not quite birds, as they were not quite flowers, mysterious and fascinating as are all indeterminate creatures.

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.

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