“Giving was better than getting”

“What are you gonna help us with? That very tiny used condom?”

“It is far better to put away fear than to be driven by it.”

“Do not give way to lowness while you are young. Rise up on the strength of God and resolve to conquer.”

“No doubt it is true that there is more rejoicing in heaven over one sinner repented than over all the saints who consistently remain holy, and the rare, sudden gentlenesses of arrogant people have infinitely more effect than the continual gentleness of gentle people. Arrogance turned gentle melts the heart.”

“If you are spending more time matching your Kitchenaid to your kettle to your cupboards than you are cooking, something is very wrong.”

“There is nothing better than this,” he said, and I worried he was right. I worried that once something had entered you, it would never leave—he would plant himself inside me and grow and grow until I was nothing but him.”