Compassion means to suffer with, but it doesn't mean to get lost in the suffering, so that it becomes exclusively one's own. I tend to do this, to replace the person for whom I am feeling compassion w...
Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.
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...
Jesus was not a theologian. He was God who told stories.
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...
In art, either as creators or participators, we are helped to remember some of the glorious things we have forgotten, and some of the terrible things we were asked to endure...
Carrying my babies was a marvelous mystery, lives growing unseen except by the slow swelling of my belly. Death is an even greater mystery. ... The God I cry out to in anguish or joy can neither be pr...
I heard a doctor say that the living tend to withdraw emotionally from the dying, thereby driving them deeper into isolation. Not to withdraw takes tremendous strength. To pull back is a temptation; i...
But when the world is, indeed, in chaos, then an affirmation of cosmos becomes essential.
As Emmanuel, Cardinal Suhard says, To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one's...
A book, too, can be a star 'explosive material, capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly.
Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.
We are going to your father, Mrs. Which said. But where is he? Meg went over to Mrs. Which and stamped as though she were as young as Charles Wallace. Mrs. Whatsit answered in a voice that was low but...
One of the problems of being a storyteller is the cultivated ability to extrapolate; in every situation all the come to me.
In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If we are qualified, we tend to think that we have do...
A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.
The naked intellect is an extraordinarily inaccurate instrument.
Stories, no matter how simple, can be vehicles of truth; can be, in fact, icons. It's no coincidence that Jesus taught almost entirely by telling stories, simple stories dealing with the stuff of life...
Love isn't what you feel. It's what you do.
It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.