“Sex and religion are closer to each other that either might prefer.”

“Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.”

“The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.”

“The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.”

“For great and horrible punishments be appointed for thieves, wheras much rather provision should have been made that there were some means they might get their living, so that no man should be driven to this necessity.”

“Disappointments in love, even betrayals and losses, serve the soul at the very moment they seem in life to be tragedies. The soul is partly in time and partly in eternity. We might remember the part that resides in eternity when we feel despair over the part that is in life.”

“An eternal question about children is, how should we educate them? Politicians and educators consider more school days in a year, more science and math, the use of computers and other technology in the classroom, more exams and tests, more certification for teachers, and less money for art. All of these responses come from the place where we want to make the child into the best adult possible, not in the ancient Greek sense of virtuous and wise, but in the sense of one who is an efficient part of the machinery of society. But on all these counts, soul is neglected.”