“Once in our world, a Stable had something in it that was bigger than our whole world.”

“In our world too, a Stable once had something inside it that was bigger than our whole world.”

“It is not that we do not believe the Lord wants the best for us. It is that we wonder how painful the best will be.”

“If they won't write the kind of books we like to read we shall have to write them ourselves.”

“I am only trying to call attention to a fact; the fact that this year, of this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people.”

“Once your baby arrives, the world is no more the same than you are. Because from our very bodies we add to the collective human destiny. Our deepest urge is always toward life, to wholeness and well being.”

“The whole world shall be ours because of our love.”