“chuckled. “It’s strange to talk like that, isn’t it? As if the Second Coming of Christ were Halloween, or New Year’s Eve, a finite time … I don’t know what you’re waiting for, Henry. I don’t know what forces are… — Robert J. Wiersema Copy Share Image
“A wise man once said that the best definition of insanity was performing the same action over and over again, expecting different results." Father Peter stopped smiling. "The same could be said of you. What makes you so sure you're right? And so sure I'm wrong?" "The difference is that I made a mistake once, out of ignorance," Tim said.… — Robert J. Wiersema Copy Share
“Tim looked my way again. "And how to you think you will be judged, on the day the trumpet sounds? You who have caused… — Robert J. Wiersema Copy Share Image
“Nostalgia is, by its very nature, bittersweet, the happiest memories laced with melancholy. It’s that combination, that opposition of forces, that makes it so… — Robert J. Wiersema Copy Share Image
“chuckled. “It’s strange to talk like that, isn’t it? As if the Second Coming of Christ were Halloween, or New Year’s Eve, a finite… — Robert J. Wiersema Copy Share Image
“The trouble with chronic pain is that it is so easy to become accustomed to it, both mentally and physically. At first it's absolutely… — Robert J. Wiersema Copy Share Image
“But after seeing the people at the Barrett house, I couldn’t fool myself anymore. What Sherry had done was something of a different order… — Robert J. Wiersema Copy Share Image
“And that's what we'll do every day. If you or your friends spray-paint obscenities on our walls, we'll scrub them off, and the people… — Robert J. Wiersema Copy Share Image
“There’s a story, in the Bible—” “Not in the Bible,” he interrupted. “Apocryphal. Scholars seem to think it was added in the Middle Ages,… — Robert J. Wiersema Copy Share Image
“It was the hope in their faces that awakened me, that reminded me of what a gift I had received. I couldn’t downplay what… — Robert J. Wiersema Copy Share Image
