I am still every age that I have been. Because I was once a child, I am always a child. Because I was once a searching adolescent, given to moods and ecstasies, these are still part of me, and always will be.
There are times when I feel that he has withdrawn from me, and I have often given him cause, but Easter is always the answer to My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!
Because to take away a man’s freedom of choice, even his freedom to make the wrong choice, is to manipulate him as though he were a puppet and not a person.
Just because we don’t understand doesn’t mean that the explanation doesn’t exist.
Reading is a creative activity. You have to visualize the characters, you have to hear what the voices sound like.
You’ve got to accept the fact that you are basically not teaching a subject, you are teaching children.
To be a witness means to live in such a way that one’s life would not make sense if God did not exist.
Inspiration does not always precede the act of writing; it often follows it.
Artists of all disciplines must be willing to go into the dark, let go control, be surprised.
Easter is always the answer to “My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!”
Art should communicate with as many people as possible.
A life lived in chaos is an impossibility.
A community to be truly community, must have a quality of unselfconsciousness about it.
Dare I? Of course I don’t. But I’m going to anyhow because I have no choice.
The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.
The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in a different way.
I believe that consistently we need to look for good, and not for evil, that when we look for evil we call up evil, while heaven comes closer when we acknowledge it.
If I’m not free to fail, I’m not free to take risks and everything in life that’s worth doing involves a willingness to take a risk.
Wherever she was, holy laughter was present to heal and redeem.
It is the ability to choose which makes us human.