Remember, there's more than one way to skin a cat. It can be done so that the animal will never know he's lost his hide.

I don't think listening to Mr. Howard's arguments is likely to do me much harm. Mind you, I believe what I was brought up to believe. It saves a vast of bother—and back of it all, God is good. The trouble with Mr. Howard is that he's a leetle TOO clever. He thinks that he's bound to live up to his cleverness, and that it's smarter to thrash out some new way of getting to heaven than to go by the old track the common, ignorant folks is travelling.

She was an expert in dealing with situations without precedent.

But we can't have things perfect in this imperfect world, as Mrs. Lynde says. Mrs. Lynde isn't exactly a comforting person sometimes, but there's no doubt she says a great many very true things.

When you can't figure Me out, you will give up the illusion of predictability and control and discover the joy and freedom of hope.

Like the seminarian relying more on his knowledge of Hebrew than on the Spirit to hear God's voice in the text, we're more prone to carefully maneuvering our way through life than to abandoning ourselves to divine providence.

The sad pattern of lack of trust in God has persisted since the Creation.

Love is blind, but a broken heart sees everything.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it Intuition or what you will, the solution comes to you and you don't know how or why.

There are in fact two things, science and opinion. The former begets knowledge, the latter ignorance.

I need the binocular approach of science and religion if I am to do any sort of justice to the deep and rich reality of the world in which we live.