"Atheism was natural enough, but heresy seemed strange. For, surely, if one could believe anything, one could believe everything."

“Listen friends, you have to face the truth: You are never going to be rich... The system is rigged in favor of the few, and your name is not among them, not now and not ever.”

“Christians are not patched-up sinners, they are new creations.”

“Maybe right and wrong did not move, but understanding of them did. The wrenching pain of walking the same path, even for a short space, tore away the willingness to judge.”

Source : Anne Perry (2004). “Shoulder the Sky: A Novel”, p.235, Ballantine Books

“A three billion year old planet floating in the vast universe with mountains, seventy percent seas and oceans, fertile lands, immense forests, rivers and lakes, sea shores and deserts, this is where we humans have the privilege to live, the latest, most advanced newcomers in evolution. What an immense, incredible responsibility we have to be a right, positive element in the further evolution of that planet. That is the big question before us in the new century and millennium.”

“It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms, and character using nothing but color, without recourse to values.”

Source : Pierre Bonnard, Jörg Zutter, Gloria Lynn Groom, National Gallery of Australia (2003). “Pierre Bonnard: observing nature”, Natl Gallery of Australia

“I would like to think I am feminist in some sorts.”

“Everyone is the keeper of a dream”

“What is the biggest obstacle facing the family right now? It is over-commitment; time pressure. There is nothing that will destroy family life more insidiously than hectic schedules and busy lives, where spouses are too exhausted to communicate, too worn out to have sex, too fatigued to talk to the kids. That frantic lifestyle is just as destructive as one involving outbroken sin. If Satan can't make you sin, he'll make you busy, and that's just about the same thing.”