God understands that part of us which is more than what we think we are.
Love isn’t how you feel. It’s what you do.
If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.
Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast.
I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.
We look not at the things which are what you would call seen, but at the things which are not seen. For the things which are seen are temporal. But the things that are not seen are eternal.
Experiment is the mother of knowledge.
When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
That’s a sure way to tell about somebody – the way they play, or don’t play, make-believe.
I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.
Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man’s heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time.
One cannot be humble and aware of oneself at the same time.
In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.
And there’s no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.
Love is the one surprise.
It was a dark and stormy night.
People become trustworthy when they are trusted.
The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.
Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving.
Accepting that we are angry is a healthy and appropriate response as long as we don’t get stuck in it. Acknowledging it is one way of going through it.