“RATS-IN-A-POKE!”

“We must stop listening to voices from the past--and we must stop immediately.--Father Tim”

“He remembered the gravestone of a woman parishioner in the churchyard of St. John's in the Grove. DEMURE AT LAST, it read. He thought that the single most definitive and amusing epitaph he'd ever come across.”

“He liked being in a place where everything from forgetfulness to homicide might be blamed on the heat.”

“...I've forgiven him. Again and again. Once done, of course, back comes the Enemy to persecute and prosecute, and I must ante up to God and forgive yet again.”

“Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about will. Practice that if you can.”

“One of the things that makes a dead leaf fall to the ground is the bud of the new leaf that pushes it off the limb.”