“I figure if there is a God, She's good and surged right now about the state of things down here.”

“Some people cannot see a good thing when it is right here, right now. Others can sense a good thing coming when it is days, months, or miles away.”

“There's a reason they call God a presence-because God is right here, right now.”

“Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.”

“She wonders when it was that she began to despair. All these years she mistook it for pious resignation. Now she sees the difference. Such a fine line between a state of grace and a state of mortal sin. What is the good of believing fervently in God if you wind up hating Him?”

“There is a reason they call God a presence - because God is right here, right now. In the present is the only place to find Him, and now is the only time.”