“Just like moons and suns,With certainty of tides,Just like hopes springing high,Still I'll rise.”

“The truth like the sun will always rise, and like the moon set for all to see...”

“To make such an attempt as to hold the rays of the sun in one's palm,Such would be the pair to wisps of moon beams caught on the rising tide of starlight”

“Yet just as the day has two halves, one governed by the sun and the other by the moon, so there are many who are people of the day and who busy themselves with daytime deeds, whilst others are children of the night, their minds consumed with nocturnal notions; but yet there are some in whom the two merge like the rising of the sun and the moon in a day.”

“Faith comes and goes. It rises and falls like the tides of an invisible ocean. If it is presumptuous to think that faith will stay with you forever, it is just as presumptuous to think that unbelief will.”

“Able closed his eyes. He was running. The grass was green with spring and fragrant, knee-high and cushioning his steps. And there was sun and a warm wind blew. Men called to him from the trees just atop the rise. He ran. He ran to them.”