Naomi Ragen Quotes

Books were like old friends, with their worn covers and well-thumbed pages.

How do they manage to go on living?…..By loving life. And-in spite of everything-by loving God. By having enough faith to start over again and again; enough faith to risk having our hearts break all over again. That’s the true meaning of faith. It’s the deepest kind of heroism.

It was Vivaldi’s Mandolin Concerto, Francesca Abraham realized as the radio alarm went off. Lively, unrelentingly upbeat, it was the perfect tempo in which to start the day. Covering her head with a pillow, she reached out blindly and urgently, desperate to shut the damn thing off.

When a man and woman married, nothing they did together had any shame or immodesty. It was all in the name of God. There was fruitfulness and joy in it, and it followed the Creator’s own plan for continuing the human race.

Women were naturally pure souls, on so much higher a spiritual plane to begin with than men.