"A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."

"Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time."

"This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted."

"Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult."

"What the feminists want of me is something they haven't examined because it comes from religion. They want me to bear witness."

"Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."

"Keep a good attitude and do the right thing even when it's hard. When you do that you are passing the test. And God promises you your marked moments are on their way."

"There is no doubt that religion had already waned under the onslaught of the Enlightenment, but it was Freud who provided the radically new understanding of human nature that made any religious explanation of the whats and whys of our personhood seem naive."