Nancy Ellis

“Faith is groping at air during the fall, hoping to find something to grab on to.”
― Timothy Egan, A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith

“We are spiritual beings. But for many of us, malnutrition of the soul is a plague of modern life.”
― Timothy Egan, A Pilgrimage to Eternity: From Canterbury to Rome in Search of a Faith

“I wish that I could thoroughly believe in some creed. I wish that I was ignorant enough to know one truth and discard all others.”
― Kate Horsley, Confessions of a Pagan Nun

“It would slowly become evident that when they committed themselves at last to secession, not as a threat but as an accomplished fact armed for violence, the devoted men who wanted to preserve the Southern way of life had made a tactical error. The ultimate fate of their cause would be largely determined by what was done in Washington. Leaving Washington forever, they had fatally surrendered the initiative. Now their enemies would seize it.”
― Bruce Catton, The Coming Fury