My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?' For our sakes Jesus went through all the suffering we may ever have to endure, and because he cried out those words we may cry them out, too.
Meg, don't you think you'd make a better adjustment to life if you faced facts? I do face facts, Meg said.They're lots easier to face than people, I can tell you.
Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.
Love, she insisted, is not power, which she considered always coercive. To love is to be vulnerable; and it is only in vulnerability and risk—not safety and security—that we overcome darkness.
Love does not triumph easily or without pain, but story gives us the courage to endure the pain.
Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which we are real.
Let's not worry about next year till we get through this one, Mrs. Murry said. More French toast, boys?
Let's be exclusive' Charles Wallace said.
It really helped ever so much because it made me mad, and when I'm mad I don't have room to be scared.
It may be that we have lost our ability to hold a blazing coal, to move unfettered through time, to walk on water, because we have been taught that such things have to be earned; we should deserve the...
It hasn't happened yet, nuclear war. No missiles have been sent. As long as it hasn't happened, there's a chance that it may not happen.
Idiot, Proginoskes said, anxiously rather than crossly. Love isn’t how you feel. It’s what you do.
Curled up on one of her pillows a gray fluff of kitten yawned, showing its pink tongue, tucked its head under again, and went back to sleep.
But our fear and our rejection does not take away from truth, and truth is what the Bible instructs us to know in order that we may be free.
Because it is the nature of love to create, a marriage itself is something which has to be created, so that, together we become a new creature. To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a p...
An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers...To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy...If I try self consciously to become a person, I will never be on...
Aeschylus writes, In our sleep, pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.
If we commit ourselves to one person for life, this is not, as many people think, a rejection of freedom; rather, it demands the courage to move into all the risks of freedom, and the risk of love whi...
Why are we so afraid of silence? Teenagers cannot study without their records; they walk along the street with their transistors. Grownups are as bad if not worse; we turn on the TV or the radio the m...
In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him...