"Gilead" Quotes

It seems to me increasingly that love must be a manifest to the world in the life of the community.

Lord, I never wanted to live anywhere but here.

It is the oddest thing about the world: how it manages to go on, in spite of the way it keeps diminishing.

I'm writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you've done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God's grace to me, a miracle, something more than a miracle.

You know, in difficult times like this you realize what a good book is worth.

There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is only a glimpse or parable of an embracing, incomprehensible reality.

There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want.

But the love that comes with reservation is not love.

You can know a thing to death and be for all purposes completely ignorant of it.

Fear is a dangerous temptation.