Southerners love a good tale. They are born reciters, great memory retainers, diary keepers, letter exchangers. . . great talkers.
Faith is an active creative force.
Differences were meant not to divide but to enrich.
The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.
Life for the Christian is a dialogue with God.
To attempt to commit the Church to social and political programs may be a short cut. . to escape from the more difficult and costly responsibility of submitting ourselves to those deeper changes of disposition and outlook which are in the end a much more powerful revolutionary force.
Any woman who does not give birth to as many children as she is capable is guilty of murder.
Sometimes it takes a guide from outside the place you know too well to remind you why you are here.
The link between intimate violence in the home and the international violence of terrorism and war is as tightly bound together as the fingers of a clenched fist.
I have a garden, and I'm passionately interested in young people.