“Churchbells were calling the faithful to worship, and outside it was a beautiful day”

“Worshiping someone means...placing that person outside of our world. We are not worshiping anyone or anything, we are simply communing with Creation.”

“Beautiful. He'd called her beautiful. Nobody had ever called her that before, except her mother, which didn't count. Mothers were required to think you were beautiful.”

“We can be in our day what the heroes of faith were in their day - but remember at the time they didn't know they were heroes.”

“The dreams of the left are always beautiful - the imagining of a better world, the damnation of the present one. This faith, this luminescent anger - these are worthy of being called human. These are the Beautiful that an age produces.”

“Together with all such blessings, the faithful woman, dazzling in unspeakable beauty in the day of her resurrection, will be compensated for her patience and faith. It will be more than a hundred fold.”