“It does not matter that we cannot fathom this mystery. The only real problem comes when we think that we have.”

“Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.”

“Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge, and an inkling of what we are looking for. When we face a mystery, however, we can only stare in wonder and bewilderment, not knowing what an explanation would even look like.”

“The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.”

“We only think when confronted with a problem.”

“We care. We feel. We think. We do not always miss the absent one. We cannot always come when called. Being friends with a loner requires patience and the wisdom that distance does not mean dislike.”