There always have been and there always will be people who have been corrupted into enjoying any excuse for cruelty.
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; there’s the marvel. It may be that the qualified feel no need of them.
Ananda: that joy without which the universe will fall apart and collapse.
There’s something wrong about trying to heal with a surgeon’s knife.
It isn’t just in distant galaxies that strange, unreasonable things are happening. Unreason has crept up on us so insidiously that we’ve hardly been aware of it. But think of the things going on in our own country which you wouldn’t have believed possible only a few years ago.
She knew that the freedom was in herself, just as the prison had been.
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 have to create it in our own hearts and homes.” “Even at a time like this?” Meg asked. The call from Calvin, the sound of her husband’s voice, had nearly broken her control. “Especially at a time like this,” her mother said gently.
If someone knows who he is, really knows, then he doesn’t need to hate.
When I get this feeling, this compulsion, I always do what it tells me. I can’t explain where it comes from or how I get it, and it doesn’t happen very often. But I obey.
Just relax and don’t worry over things that needn’t trouble you,” Mrs Whatsit said.
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 things in his own way and in his own time.
But human beings need Deepening Places, too. And far too many never have any.
The important thing is to recognize that our gift, no matter what the size, is indeed something given us, for which we can take no credit, but which we may humbly serve, and, in serving, learn more wholeness, be offered wondrous newness. Picasso says that an artist paints not to ask a question but because he has found something and he wants to share – he cannot help it – what he has found.
William Langland, writing around 1400, said, ‘And all the wickedness in the world that man might work or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal in the sea.
All I knew was that at almost fifteen it’s very difficult to be satisfied with the age you are, because you aren’t really any age.
It is not the vaccinationists but the antivaccinationists who generate zeal. People are zealous for a cause when they are not quite positive that it is true.
But, oh, my dears, I did so love being a star!” -Mrs. Whatsit, A Wrinkle in Time.
It is the nature of love to create, and no matter what we do to creation, that love is still there, creating; in the young man who is holding his jacket closed across his chest; in you; in me.
Children are less easily frightened than we are... they all understand princesses, of course. Haven’t they all been badly bruised by peas?
All that is required for the triumph of evil is that good men remain silent and do nothing.