“Two things everybody’s got tuh do fuh theyselves. They got tuh go tuh God, and they got tuh find out about livin’ fuh theyselves.”

Now, women forget all those things they don’t want to remember, and remember everything they don’t want to forget. The dream is the truth. Then they act and do things accordingly.

Love, I find, is like singing.

She was saving up feelings for some man she had never seen.

When one is too old for love, one finds great comfort in good dinners.

There is nothing to make you like other human beings so much as doing things for them.

If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.

She starched and ironed her face, forming it into just what people wanted to see.

Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.

Her old thoughts were going to come in handy now, but new words would have to be made and said to fit them.

It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.

Mystery is the essence of divinity

I have the nerve to walk my own way, however hard, in my search for reality, rather than climb upon the rattling wagon of wishful illusions.

Oh to be a pear tree – any tree in bloom! With kissing bees singing of the beginning of the world!

No, I do not weep at the world. I’m too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

Janie looked down on him and felt a self-crushing love. So her soul crawled out from its hiding place.

Half Gods are worshipped with wine and Flowers. Real Gods require Blood.

If we are leading but not closely following Christ, we are misleading.

You never so touch the ocean of God’s love as when you forgive and love your enemies.

If you’re still drawing breath, God’s not done with you yet. Don’t quit. Be brave and believe God is for you.

God will never send anything your way you couldn’t handle.

It’s a strange thought that sometimes God trusts us more than we trust Him. God trusts you – can you trust Him?

The safest place to be is in the center of God’s will.

If God had wanted us to talk more than listen, he would have given us two mouths rather than two ears.

Better to admit where you’re not and ask God’s help to get you where you need to be.