Following Christ has nothing to do with success as the world sees success. It has to do with love.
science never threatens God - it opens up more possibilities.
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.
A new year can begin only because the old year ends.
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.
We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast
We tend to think things are new because we've just discovered them.
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.
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.
Don't keep putting your anger off. Until you go through it, you can't get out of it.
But my memories are like a fire in winter—whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them. —Ditta
An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers. To define everything is to annihilate much that gives us laughter and joy.
For the things that are seen are temporal, but things that are unseen are eternal.
Progo,' Meg asked. 'You memorized the names of all the stars - how many are there?' How many? Great heavens, earthling. I haven't the faintest idea.' But you said your last assignment was to memorize the names of all of them.' I did. All the stars in all the galaxies. And that's a great many.' But how many?' What difference does it make? I know their names. I don't know how many there are. It's their names that matter.
And joy is always a promise.
artists ... all have a need that cannot be met by another human being.
As human beings, the closest we can get to truth is through story.
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.
I love my mother, not as a prisoner of atherosclerosis, but as a person; and I must love her enough to accept her as she is, now, for as long as this dwindling may take.
An infinite question is often destroyed by finite answers.
When we are self-conscious, we cannot be wholly aware; we must throw ourselves out first. This throwing ourselves away is the act of creativity.
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.
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.
Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of sand holds power and might.
Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.
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