“Faith is like radar that sees through the fog -- the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.”

“To affirm a person is to see the good in them that they cannot see in themselves and to repeat it in spite of appearances to the contrary. Please, this is not some Pollyanna optimism that is blind to the reality of evil, but rather like a fine radar system that is tuned in to the true, the good, and the beautiful.”

“Since we cannot change reality, let us change the eyes which see reality.”

“To have faith is to be sure of the things we hope for, to be certain of the things we cannot see.”

“Why is it that a woman can see from a distance what a man cannot see close?”

“You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it.”