The foolish of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of god is stronger than men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that may not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble,...
Ridicule is a terrible witherer of the flower of imagination. It binds us where we should be free.
The greatest challenge a teacher has to accept is the courage to be; if we we make mistakes; we say too much where we should have said nothing; we do not speak where a word might have made all the di...
How do we teach a child--our own, or those in a classroom--to have compassion: to allow people to be different; to understand that like is not equal; to experiment; to laugh; to love; to accept the fa...
Story always tells us more than the mere words, and that is why we love to write it, and to read it.
In the literary world today, Christianity has pretty well replaced sex as the present pet taboo, not only because Christianity is so often distorted by Christians as well as non-Christians, but becaus...
We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book; we want to feel that new possibilities of being have been opened to us. We don't want to close a book with a sense that life is totally unfair...
The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.
Two people whose opinion I respect told me that the word Christian would turn people off. This certainly says something about the state of Christianity today. I wouldn't mind if to be a Christian were...
I don't know if they're really like everybody else, or if they're able to pretend they are.
We, and I think I'm speaking for many writers, don't know what it is that sometimes comes to make our books alive. All we can do is write dutifully and day after day, every day, giving our work the ve...
If we allow our "high creativity" to remain alive, we will never be bored. We can pray, standing in line at the super market. Or we can be lost in awe at all the people around us, their lives full of...
When I start a new seminar I tell my students that I will undoubtedly contradict myself, and that I will mean both things. But an acceptance of contradiction is no excuse for fuzzy thinking. We do hav...
Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.
Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos we see despite all the chaos.
A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.
When I am constantly running there is no time for being. When there is no time for being there is no time for listening.
We're not peculiar.Oh, yes, you are. Don't you realize that in my world my parents are peculiar because they'd never been divorced? Basically because it would have been too much trouble. But you live...
There is nothing that makes me happier than sitting around the dinner table and talking until the candles are burned down.
In your language you have a form of poetry called a sonnet...It is a very strict form of poetry, is it not?...There are fourteen lines, I believe, all in iambic pentameter. That's a very strict rhythm...