He was near tears, 'Who do I blame?' he kept asking me. 'There is no God.I can only blame myself.'" The Reb's face tightened, as if in pain. "That," he said, softly, "is a terrible self-indictment." Worse than an unanswered prayer? "Oh yes. It is far more comforting to think God listened and said no, than to think that nobody's out there.

You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.

Fear is how you lose your life...a little bit at a time...What we give to fear, we take away from...faith.

I took my orders, too. But if i couldn't keep you alive, I thought I could at least keep you together. In the middle of a big war, you go looking for a small idea to believe in. When you find one, you hold it the way a soldier holds his crucifix when he's praying in a foxhole.

Sticking with your family is what makes it a family.

My own father didn't talk a lot about feelings or emotions.

What she mostly wanted, he learned, was the same thing many people want--someone to notice she was there.