Guess—You know how people say, Don’t borrow trouble? Well, said Morgan, I guess it’s the opposite of that. Doc is borrowing happiness. The
[I]t is easier to ask forgiveness than to obtain permission.
You know, I’ve always thought it was a tactical mistake for God to love us in the aggregate, when Satan is willing to make a special effort to seduce each of us separately.
You are young, Father Iron Horse, and you have a young man’s vices. Certainty. Shortsightedness. Contempt for pragmatism.
Why, he had once wondered, would a perfect God create the universe? To be generous with it, he believed now. For the pleasure of seeing pure gifts appreciated. Maybe that’s what it meant to find God:...
What he experienced was not so much the beginning of love as a cessation of pain.
We meant well, she thought, looking up at a sky piled with cumulus clouds turning amethyst and indigo above the clearing. No one was deliberately evil. We all did the best we could. Even so, what a me...
We are none of us born into Eden, Doc said reasonably. world's plenty evil when we get here. Question is, what's the best way to play a bad hand?...
The sparrow still falls.
The sign of a good decision is the multiplicity of reasons for it.
That was when it came to him that the only unmixed happiness he could think of was when he quit his job with the city after that fight with Bob Wright. So he told Doc that, too, and said, I never mean...
She had challenged him on this point one night at Anne and George's, inhibitions weakened by Ronrico: Explain this Mass to me!There was a silence as he sat still, apparently looking at the dinner plat...
Once I told Ha�anala about the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah. . . . I told her how Abraham bargained with God for the lives of ten righteous men who might have lived there. She said to me, �Abraham sho...
Now, finally, he was in a place where none of that made any difference, where he was simply an Earthman. Only here had he come to understand that he was not a battleground—to be divided and conquered...
Matthew ten, verse twenty-nine, Vincenzo Giuliani said quietly. ‘Not one sparrow can fall to the ground without your Father knowing it.’ But the sparrow still falls, Felipe said.
Jesus Christ, Jimmy breathed, meeting the future by turning to the ancient past.
It’s not easy to be obedient if you suspect your superiors are asses.
It was politicians saying, Let’s you and him fight!
It is the human condition to ask questions like Anne’s last night and to receive no plain answers, he said. Perhaps this is because we can’t understand the answers, because we are incapable of knowing...
Isaac didn’t understand heartache. Or regret or longing or divided loyalties. Or anger or shattered trust or betrayal. Such things had no clarity. They involved expectations of another’s behavior, and...