When I think of the incredible, incomprehensible sweep of creation above me, I have the strange reaction of feeling fully alive. Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against g...
When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things.
What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter how secular (on the surface) the subject may be.
We write alone, but we do not write in isolation. No matter how fantastic a story line may be, it still comes out of our response to what is happening to us and to the world in which we live.
We look not at the things which are what you could call seen, but the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things which are not seen are eternal.
We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don’t have much sense.
We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast
We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.
Wait until tomorrow to find what tomorrow holds.
To love is to be vulnerable; and it is only in vulnerability and risk—not safety and security—that we overcome darkness.
To love anyone is to hope in him always. From the moment at which we begin to judge anyone, to limit our confidence in him, from the moment at which we identify [pigeonhole] him, and so reduce him to...
There’s something a little humiliating about having to accept that, at fifty-one, one is naïve. I am. I would, quite often, like to be grownup, wise, and sophisticated. But these gifts are not mine.
There will no longer be so many pleasant things to look at if responsible people do not do something about the unpleasant ones.
There was yesterday, which was gone, which was only a dream. There was tomorrow, which was a vision not unlike today. When was always Now, for there was little looking either backward or forward in th...
There are still stars which move in ordered and beautiful rhythm. There are still people in this world who keep promises. Even little ones, like your cooking stew over your Bunsen burner. You may be i...
The peculiar idea that bigger is better has been around for at least as long as I have, and it's always bothered me. There is within it the implication that it is more difficult for God to care about...
The journey homewards. Coming home. That's what it's all about. The journey to the coming of the Kingdom. That's probably the chief difference between the Christian and the secular artist--the purpose...
Progo,' Meg asked. 'You memorized the names of all the stars - how many are there?'How many? Great heavens, earthling. I haven't the faintest idea.'But you said your last assignment was to memorize th...
Poets are born knowing the language of angels.
Okay, Polly, her grandfather said. Let’s have some normal, ordinary lesson time. What is Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle?