We want nothing from you that you do without grace or [...] understanding.
There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness.
There always have been and there always will be people who have been corrupted into enjoying any excuse for cruelty.
The writer whose words are going to be read by children has a heavy responsibility. And yet, despite the undeniable fact that the children’s minds are tender, they are also far more tough than many pe...
Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.
She always had to have someone to love...She couldn't seem to believe that anyone could really love her. She always thought it was because she was a star, not just because of her herself, and she alwa...
Perhaps one of the most compelling and moving descriptions of that internal battle comes near the end of the book, when Mrs Whatsit tells the children that life, with its rules, its obligations, and i...
People like me spend years learning the techniques of meditation. But you're a poet, and poets are born knowing the language of angels.
On a planet that has given in... you must prepare to be very strong.
Nothing, no one, is too small to matter. What you do is going to make a difference.
Maybe the theatre isn't any place for a reasonable human being after all. It keeps your emotions in such a constant state of upheaval. It's really terribly wearing. I wonder if I could stand it, one e...
Like and equal are not the same thing at all.
Let's not worry about next year till we get through this one, Mrs. Murry said. More French toast, boys?
La experiencia es la madre de la ciencia. Spanish, my dears. Cervantes. Experience is the mother of knowledge.
If God’s peace is in our hearts, we carry it with us, and it can be given to those around us, not by our own will or virtue, but by the Holy Spirit working through us. We cannot give what we do not ha...
I would, quite often, like to be grownup, wise, and sophisticated. But these gifts are not mine.
I am encouraged as I look at some of those who have listened to their different drum: Einstein was hopeless at school math and commented wryly on his inadequacy in human relations. Winston Churchill w...
Faith is what makes life bearable, with all its tragedies and ambiguities and sudden, startling joys.
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.
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...