I knew that the moment I started worrying about whether or not I was good enough for the job, I wouldn't be able to do it.
I felt so insufferably alone. I remembered Miss Myra Turnbull telling us once that this desperate need we have to belong to someone goes back to our earliest forebears, the lowest form of animal life,...
I do not know everything; still many things I understand.
I didn't mean to tell you, Mrs. Whatsit faltered. I didn't mean ever to let you know. But oh, my dears, I did so love being a star! Yyouu are sstill verry yyoungg, Mrs Witch said, her voice faintly ch...
I am a mere unicorn. Gaudior dropped his silver lashes modestly.
He said, There’s a sermon of John Donne’s I have often had cause to remember during my lifetime. He says, Other men’s crosses are not my crosses. We all have our own cross to carry, and one is all mos...
God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.
Fore WordPoetry and prayer are synonymous in my life, and because both are a gift, which I accept with joy and sometimes pain, I seldom know whether I have served the gift well or ill. But perhaps tha...
Finally I scrawled at the bottom of the epistle that I truly feared for this woman. We find what we are looking for. If we are looking for life and love and openness and growth, we are likely to find...
Euripides. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.
Don’t worry about Charles Wallace, Meg, her father had once told her. Meg remembered it very clearly because it was shortly before he went away. There’s nothing the matter with his mind. He just does...
Charles Wallace had once again been contemplating the intricate model of the tesseract. He spoke softly to his sister. Meg, no matter what happens, even if Dennys is right about her heart, remember th...
But human beings need Deepening Places, too. And far too many never have any.
But grief still has to be worked through. It is like walking through water. Sometimes there are little waves lapping about my feet. Sometimes there is an enormous breaker that knocks me down. Sometime...
But as she had felt she was beyond fear, so now she was beyond screaming.
Beware of pride and arrogance, Charles, for they may betray you.
Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.
And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.
And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not.
An old ass knows more than a young colt