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.
The virgin birth has never been a major stumbling block in my struggle with Christianity; it’s far less mind boggling than the Power of all Creation stooping so low as to become one of us.
She began to feel the sense of wonderful elation that always came to her when beauty took hold of her and made her forget her fears.
Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.
Everything we do, our entire interior monologue, is prayer.
When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband.
God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent.
When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.
If we don’t pray according to the needs of the heart, we repress our deepest longings. Our prayers may not be rational, and we may be quite aware of that, but if we repress our needs, then those unsaid prayers will fester.
When we celebrate Christmas, we are celebrating that amazing time when the Word that shouted all the galaxies into being limited all power and, for love of us, came to us in the powerless body of a human baby.
God is over all things, under all things; outside all; within, but not enclosed; without, but not excluded; above, but not raised up; below; but not depressed; wholly above, presiding; wholly without, embracing; wholly within, filling.
All will be redeemed in God’s fullness of time, all, not just the small portion of the population who have been given the grace to know and accept Christ. All the strayed and stolen sheep. All the little lost ones.