Believing takes practice.

It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.

When I look at the galaxies on a clear night - when I look at the incredible brilliance of creation, and think that this is what God is like, then instead of feeling intimidated and diminished by it, I am enlarged . . . I rejoice that I am a part of it.

Women must be very gentle with men as they, as well as women, seek to regain the lost wholeness for which they were destined.

Don't be afraid..." We need this reassurance. Even for those of us who believe implicitly in angels, to be confronted by one is an awesome thing."

I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a searching adolescent, given to moods and ecstasies, these are still part of me, and always will be.

Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general.