It came charging toward me, several hundred pounds of angry-looking monster, and I did the only thing any reasonable wizard could have done.I turned around and ran like hell.

Sleep is God. Go worship.

Life would be unbearably dull if we had answers to all our questions.

So. You get handed a holy sword by an archangel, told to go fight the forces of evil, and you somehow remain an atheist. Is that what you're saying?

I had a vague memory of being that ridiculous at one time. Let he who hath never worn parachute pants cast the first stone.

There are things you can't walk away from. Not if you want to live with yourself afterward.

I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane.

Apocalypse is a frame of mind." [Nicodemus] said then. "A belief. A surrender to inevitability. It is a despair for the future. It is the death of hope.

I wouldn't burden any decent system of faith by participating in it... I'm not agnostic. Just nonpartisan. Theological Switzerland, that's me.

The Shroud was old, and regarded as special, and people believed in it. That could be enough to give it a kind of power, all by itself.

Internet, " she said sagely. "Expanding the frontiers of adolescent knowledge.

Success is determined by how best you can utilize your time

God seems to be about turning our loves around and using them toward the great love that is their true object.

Unhealthy people tend to be unhappy people.

I go on YouTube when somebody says to look something up.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

If the men in the room would only think how they would feel graduating with a 'spinster of arts' degree they would see how important this is.

I would have tested the furniture if they'd asked me.

You receive the light through what you read, through what you hear in meditation, or through some spiritual practice.

The mystery of God touches us - or does not - in the smallest details: giving a strawberry, with love; receiving a touch, with love; sharing the snapdragon red of an autumn sunset, with love.

Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening.