“It's exactly at these moments, when all hope has vanished, that prayer has dominion.”
“Every moment has its pleasures and its hope.”
“All morning, Spence has been a well-oiled machine of activity. Everyone doing her bit, quietly and efficiently. It's strange how deliberate people are after a death. All the indecision suddenly vanishes into clear, defined moments--changing the linens, choosing a dress or a hymn, the washing up, the muttering of prayers. All the small, simple, conscious acts of living a sudden defense against the dying we do every day.”
“Courage is fear that has said its prayers.”
“courage is simply fear that has said it's prayers!”
“Prayer and love are learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and the heart has turned to stone.”