“What he aimed for, and succeeded some days in attaining was the remarkable equipoise of humility and confidence that is grace.”

“I did not know then that there are those you love no matter how much they hurt you, no matter how many years have passed since you felt them in the morning. I did not know how long it took to get over such a love, and that even when you did, when you loved again, you would always carry a sliver of it in your stitched-together heart. I did not know that you could love them in death, and that if one day they returned to you in a dream or half sleep, you might hold up your hand as she had done, because life and time had changed you.”

“Sin, in the Greek, means missing the mark. An archery term. That’s all it is. That which has kept you from God.”

“No matter how many times you fall in love, it always comes at you sideways. It always catches you by surprise.”

“All will be well. Seventeen years later, I knew her meaning. You will find the courage to walk through whatever life gives you.”

“God loves you just as you are. Pray from where you are.”

“That's the thing about timing. It has nothing to do with love.”