William Bode

“What else is love,” Mathiax had asked her one day, “but taking the pain of another as your own—especially when you are not obliged to?” Thus, pain was woven into the very fabric of the universe—because there could be no love without it, and because the Infinite Father had set love as the cornerstone of His creation.”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, The Siege of Dome

“For once a person accepted the idea that the Infinite Father of the entire universe actually desired commerce with individual men, literally no sphere of mortal endeavor was untouched. Each and every thought and action had to be examined in light of an expressed partnership with an infinite and eternal patron.”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, The Search for Fierra

“A limber body is often the companion of a limber mind,” she told them. “The body is the bridge between the mind and the emotions, just as the emotions are the bridge between the mind and spirit.”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, The Siege of Dome

“That is what the boats and birds and children symbolized: creatures at rest within themselves and in harmony with their environment. Not fighting it, but accepting it, shaping it and being shaped by it to live in it and beyond it.”
― Stephen R. Lawhead, The Search for Fierra