You don’t know the meaning of moderation, do you, my darling? A happy medium is something I wonder if you’ll ever learn.

I'm apt to get drunk on words...Ontology: the word about the essence of things; the word about being.

Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are hurt, we learned not to trust.

... nothing loved is ever lost or perished.

We tend to think things are new because we've just discovered them.

There is no way that you can read the entire Bible seriously and take every word literally. Contradictions start in the first chapter of Genesis. There are two Creation stories, two stories of the making of Adam and Eve. And that is all right. The Bible is still true.

I feel as though I'm not breathing when I'm out of his presence. He's the oxygen in my air, the sun in my universe, the staff of my life. —Jane Gardiner