Diligence in Love Quotes

“If you could make contact with God alone, as these people seemed to think, without help from anyone, without spoken words or ceremony couldn't you maybe figure out all religion for yourself? Start from scratch. If God was really in everyone, so near . . .”
― Daisy Newman, Diligence in Love

“The determination to resist being carried away broke in her, cracked and split open, widened by the pressure of a whole flood of new feeling, a longing for something beyond her.... It had been formless in the beginning, this longing. Each time it returned, though, it became more distinct and intense, as an object would be more discernible the closer one came. And now it was clear to Vaughn that this wasn't so much a matter of Ham against Philip Ludlow, the way Denny'd put it, as of her will against God's.”
― Daisy Newman, Diligence in Love

“Vaughn felt herself moving through this silence into the sense of understanding she'd known in Kendal. The furious drive in her to grasp and overreach, to get on against all odds, fell away.

Inward eyes, ears of the soul. She wouldn't have put it in those words, but what she saw and heard in this distant place to which she felt carried now was like nothing in her whole experience. The certainty of some power beyond her, more competent than herself, relieved her of the necessity she always felt to run everything and everybody. For the first time in her life she knew a small willingness to surrender management, to listen humbly.”
― Daisy Newman, Diligence in Love