You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father.
Ἀέλπτον ούδέν, πἀντα δ’ ἐλπἱζειν χρεὠν. Euripides. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.
To look at a work of art and then to make a judgement as to whether or not it is art, and whether or not it is Christian, is presumptuous.
He seemed to be thinking at him.
You must understand with your hearts. With the whole of yourselves, not just a fragment.
We lived on 82nd Street and the Metropolitan Museum was my short cut to Central Park. I wrote:I go into the museumand look at all the pictures on the walls.Instead of feeling my own insignificanceI wa...
We have to make decisions, and we can’t make them if they’re based on fear.
Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.
To try to talk about art and about Christianity is for me one and the same thing, and it means attempting to share the meaning of my life, what gives it, for me, its tragedy and its glory.
They are very young. And on their earth, as they call it, they never communicate with other planets. They revolve about all alone in space.Oh, the thin beast said. Aren't they lonely?
There’s something wrong about trying to heal with a surgeon’s knife.
There was no light. The darkness was deep and there was no dazzle.
There are still stars which move in ordered and beautiful rhythm. There are still people in this world who keep promises.
The written word Should be clean as bone, Clear as light, Firm as stone. Two words are not As good as one. I
The artist, if he is not to forget how to listen, must retain the visionwhich includes angels and dragons and unicorns, and all the lovely creatures which our world would put in a bos marked, 'Childre...
Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.
Questions are disturbing, especially those which may threaten our traditions, our institutions, our security. But questions never threaten the living God, who is constantly calling us, and who affirms...
On a planet that has given in... you must prepare to be very strong.
Oh, Meg, you are a moron, Calvin said. Don't you know you're the nicest thing that's happened to me in a long time?
My dear, I'm seldom sure of anything. Life at best is a precarious business...