“Evolution is more about the condition of the heart of a man who does not want to acknowledge God than it is about the facts.”

“Troubles are God setting the stage for greater blessings in your life.”

“I'm only interested in stories that are about the crushing of the human heart.”

“You can't stand for Jesus without a Christ-like spirit.”

“People who are sensible about love are incapable of it.”

“Now you’ve said it. The hopeless emptiness. Hell, plenty of people are on to the emptiness part; out where I used to work, on the Coast, that’s all we ever talked about. We’d sit around talking about emptiness all night. Nobody ever said ‘hopeless,’ though; that’s where we’d chicken out. Because maybe it does take a certain amount of guts to see the emptiness, but it takes a whole hell of a lot more to see the hopelessness. And I guess when you do see the hopelessness, that’s when there’s nothing to do but take off. If you can”

“He took each fact as it came and let it slip painlessly into the back of his mind, thinking, Okay, okay, I'll think about that one later; and that one; and that one; so that the alert, front part of his mind could remain free enough to keep him in command of the situation.”