“It's creepy to know that we're living in a giant tube.""Hey, if you think about it, we were living on the surface of a big ball of rock. How was that better?”

“Is that a cow?"Harley laughed out loud. "What do you suppose our barbecue-loving Texas friends are going to say to that?""Actually," Sasha said, "I'll be more interested in what our friends from Bangalore will say to what our Texas friends will say.”

“It's not who you are underneath, its what you do that defines you.”

“Don't you realize it's the doing that often gets us into trouble? It's not the doing that makes God happy. It's not about what we've done...it's about what been done for us.”

“It's hard to know, isn't it, whether the things we face are just because the world is full of sin and sinful people, or if God is working out a plan,' Grandma continued. 'I happen to think it's both. There's sin, but through it all, He takes the mess we make and paints a masterpiece. In fact, I'm quite certain that before God can ever bless a woman—and use her to impact many—He uses the hammer, the file, and the furnace to do a holy work.”

“Well, I think we all started off as ash, astral ash; the Big Bang and all that. You and I - stardust. Maybe a little piece of me and a little piece of you were once companions on some great cosmic dust making its way to this rock.”

“She was drowning—in friendliness, in community—and she was starting to think she didn't want to get pulled out.”