“How long can I listen to the lies of prejudice? How long can I stay drunk on fear out in the wilderness? Can I cast it aside, all this loyalty and this pride? Will I ever learn that there'll be no peace, that the war won't cease, until He returns?”
“As a prominent conservative told me that year, "We need to go out into the wilderness for a long time, and figure out how we can one day return.”
“How can I be my best if I never fail,and how can I ever find peace if I never yell.”
“As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?”
“How long do you want me?" he asked.How long can I have you? I thought.”
“Beth ceased to fear him from that moment, and sat there talking to him as cozily as if she had known him all her life, for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride.”