There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull crack as it stands. What is to be broke will be broke.

Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.

When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was—he only saw the brightness of the Lord.

Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder?

Doesn't this quote just call up feelings of comfort and home? Comparing friendship to the nest a bird lives in and builds with loving determination reminds me that having a solid relationship takes work and dedication. And yet, when you succeed in crafting a friendship, you can rest in the comfort it provides.

In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception.

You are a good young man," she said. "But I do not like husbands. I will never have another.