“It is impossible to experience a person’s life, or to be compassionate, if you do not listen to the person or if you do not ask questions.”

“The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of narrow mind and defective wisdom.”

“Grief is only the memory of widowed affections.”

“Religion is the belief in an ever-living God, that is, in a Divine Mind and Will ruling the Universe and holding moral relations with mankind.”

“Religion is no more possible without prayer than poetry without language or music without atmosphere.”

“I love Michel Roux, Jr., and James Martin - the chefs who are experts in their own right, like Rick Stein on fish. But I don't watch them very much because I don't think it's fair for my husband to be in a total food environment all the time! So we watch programmes about gardening more.”

“Because people understand that the diocese is trying to help the members of that group feel more connected to their church, the church they belong to by virtue of their baptism.”

“It is impossible to experience a person’s life, or to be compassionate, if you do not listen to the person or if you do not ask questions.”

“All Christians have access to the spiritual riches found in the Scriptures, which, after all, were written amid the spiritual turmoil and social conflicts of the writers’ times. We can learn from those who went before us.”

“Is it right for people to critique others for their supposed un-Christian attitudes by themselves being un-Christian?”