How do I make more than a fumbling attempt to explain that faith is not legislated, that it is not a small box which works twenty-four hours a day? If I 'believe' for two minutes once every month or s...
How did all this happen? Isn’t it wonderful? I feel as though I were just being born! I’m not alone anymore! Do you realize what that means to me?
Holiness ... is nothing we can *do* ... It is gift, sheer gift, waiting there to be recognized and received. We do not have to be qualified to be holy. We do not have to be qualified to be whole, or h...
Her father said, You know, my dears, the world has been abnormal for so long that we’ve forgotten what it’s like to live in a peaceful and reasonable climate. If there is to be any peace or reason, we...
Grandfather looked away from me and out to sea, and when he spoke, it was as though he spoke to himself. The obligations of normal human kindness – chesed, as the Hebrew has it – that we all owe. But...
Fewmets is my new swear word. I’m tired of all the old ones.
Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.
Charles Wallace understands more than the rest of us, doesn’t he?
Charles Wallace looked troubled. I don’t think it’s that. It’s being able to understand a sort of language, like sometimes if I concentrate very hard I can understand the wind talking with the trees....
But you see, Meg, just because we don’t understand doesn’t mean that the explanation doesn’t exist.
But what is real? In the Bible we are constantly being given glimpses of a reality quite different from that taught in school, even in Sunday school. And these glimpses are not given to the qualified;...
But there’s a kind of vanity in thinking you can nurse the world. There’s a kind of vanity in goodness.
But his love is greater than all our hate and he will not rest until Judas has turned to him, until Satan has turned to him, until dark has turned to him; until we can all, all of us without exception...
But I love her. That’s the funny part of it. I love them all, and they don’t give a hoot about me. Maybe that’s why I call when I’m not going to be home. Because I care. Nobody else does. You don’t kn...
And When is not what matters. It’s what happens in the When that matters.
Alas. What have we done to our good, bawdy, Anglo-Saxon four-letter words? ...We have blunted them so with overuse that they no longer have any real meaning for us. ...When will we be able to redeem o...
Adam thus bequeathed us his death, not his sin … We do not inherit the sins of our fathers, even though we may be made to endure their punishment. Guilt cannot be transmitted. We are linked to Adam on...
O God,here, as so often, I cannot help.Let me not forget she is your childand your concern makes mine as nothing.
Hate hurts the hater more'n the hated.
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