“ Science destroys only the false ideas about religion; the true ideas it complements and explores.) Susan Howatch
“ I am a lover of truth; and if you think of truth as being multifaceted and so huge that we human beings can't fully comprehend it, then obviously it makes sense to put all the facts together - to comp… Susan Howatch
“ One wonders what would happen in a society where there were no rules to break. Doubtlessly everyone would quickly die of boredom. Susan Howatch
“ Religion is about integration, about successfully bringing the selfish ego into line with the centre of the personality where God exists, as a divine spark, in every human being. Religion is about hel… Susan Howatch
“ And daughters who are so hopeless at doing the done thing and sticking to the rules are automatically paralyzed with guilt whenever they come within fifty yards of a mother like Margaret. Susan Howatch
“ My first recommendation...will be that you should have a holiday. You are worn out by all your unhappiness. Susan Howatch
“ Life's not about the day when you win the prizes - it's about all the days in between. p 255 Susan Howatch
“ Its really most remarkable how the human race is so seldom satisfied with what its got. Give a man the world and he's pining for the moon. Susan Howatch
“ Practice makes perfect and although God did create Adam he was more accomplished when the time came for him to create Eve. Susan Howatch
“ There’s a pattern. Never, never doubt that there’s a pattern. There’s a pattern always. Everywhere. In everyone. Susan Howatch
“ There is no timetable for grief, said Bronwen Morgan. Grief isn’t a train which you catch at the station. Grief has its own time, and grief’s time is beyond time, and time itself … isn’t very importan… Susan Howatch
“ I was wondering if the scene in the drawing-room had been a triumph or a disaster or merely a chaotic piece of bad taste verging on bathos, but I reflected that the only important question was whether… Susan Howatch
“ Think of me as the porter . . . and consider the possiblity that life might be less exhausting if you unloaded some of your bags on to my empty trolley. Susan Howatch
“ You have here a parable, the subject of which might be called The Persistence of Truth … Whatever fears, adversities, or doubts assail you, go forward calmly in the knowledge that the truth persists,… Susan Howatch
“ No demon can withstand the power of Christ,” said my father, repeating the words he had used long ago, and what he meant was that no dissociated mind can withstand the integrating power of the Living… Susan Howatch
“ So many people fail to realise that the greatest journey one can ever take is the journey to the very centre of one’s being. Susan Howatch
“ Sin is when you turn away from God—or, in the other language, alienation occurs when the ego, that erratic, unreliable driver of the personality, temporarily turns aside from the great quest for integ… Susan Howatch
“ Sin/ alienation is psychological disease which if unhealed can lead to the living hell of lost hopes and blighted lives. Susan Howatch
“ The sad part was that everything I said was true but I was going about the healing in entirely the wrong way. As I was to be taught later, you can’t heal the sick by force-feeding them with ideas they… Susan Howatch
