Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.
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...
Inspiration usually comes during work rather than before it.
All things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to His purpose.
What happens to what's happened? she asked the bishop.It's there. Waiting.
Well, I think you're handsome,
The prayer of words cannot be eliminated. And I must pray them daily, whether I feel like praying or not. Otherwise, when God as something to say to me, I will not know how to listen. Until I have wor...
Sorry. I get attacks of quotitis every once in a while. It's a very rare disease with no cure. It usually attacks older people, and here i am afflicted with it at my tender age.
One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.
Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved.
It’s all been said better before. If I thought I had to say it better than anybody else, I’d never start. Better or worse is immaterial. The thing is that it has to be said; by me; ontologically. We e...
It's my worst trouble, getting fond. If I didn't get fond I could be happy all the time.
It was a dark and stormy night.
It really helped ever so much because it made me mad, and when I'm mad I don't have room to be scared.
In the act of creativity, the artist lets go the self-control which he normally clings to and is open to riding the wind.
If you accept any position of authority you have to know when to break or circumvent a rule. It’s the knowing when that’s important.
If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn’t need to hate.
I place all Heaven with its power And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness, And the fire with all the strength it hath, And the lightning with its rapid wrath, And the winds wi...
I get glimmers of the bad nineteenth-century teaching which has made Mother remove God from the realm of mystery and beauty and glory, but why do people half my age think that they don't have faith un...
I don’t underestimate knowledge. But we get into trouble when we confuse it with truth.