I hope that I will never forget the salvific power of joyful laughter.
Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.
Meg, when people don’t know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named.
I suspect that in every good marriage there are times when love seems to be over.
Man is; it matters to him; this is terrifying unless it matters to God, too, because this is the only possible reason we can matter to ourselves...
Maybe you have to know the darkness before you can appreciate the light.
To marry is the biggest risk in human relations that a person can take.
A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.
Nothing, no one, is too small to matter. What you do is going to make a difference.
I don’t understand it any more than you do, but one thing I’ve learned is that you don’t have to understand things for them to be.
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.
Stories are able to help us to become more whole, to become Named. And Naming is one of the impulses behind all art; to give a name to the cosmos, we see despite all the chaos.
Because you’re not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.
Time exists so that everything doesn’t happen at once.
Goodness has never been a guarantee of safety.
We do not have to understand in order to believe that behind the mystery and the fascination there is love.
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.
Friends – or lovers – are not always available to each other. Inner turmoils can cause us to be unhearing when someone needs us, to need to receive understanding when we should be giving understanding.
Following Christ has nothing to do with success as the world sees success. It has to do with love.
Basically there can be no categories such as ‘religious’ art and ‘secular’ art, because all true art is incarnational, and therefore ’religious.