“Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit...”

“The Sage was asked to define good manners? to which he replied, To bear patiently the rude ones.”

“If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.”

“She lived frugally, but her meals were the only things on which she deliberately spent her money. She never compromised on the quality of her groceries, and drank only good-quality wines.”

“Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.”

“Judgement is the forbidden objectivization of the other person which destroys single-minded love. I am not forbidden to have my own thoughts about the other person, to realize his shortcomings, but only to the extent that it offers to me an occasion for forgiveness and unconditional love, as Jesus proves to me.”