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God promised to make you free. He never promised to make you independent.
Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence.
Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests.
I do not believe that true optimism can come about except through tragedy.
Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation-coming home again.
We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.
Easter is always the answer to "My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me!"
Inspiration does not always precede the act of writing; it often follows it.
Truth is eternal. Knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.
Dare I? Of course I don't. But I'm going to anyhow because I have no choice.
Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.
You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.
The growth of love is not a straight line, but a series of hills and valleys.
We know you have a great mind and all, Mother, but you don’t have much sense.
We cannot always cry at the right time and who is to say which time is right?
We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift.
if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child.
It takes too much energy to be against something unless it's really important.
The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions.
there are dozens and dozens of ways to be a family ... Family tends to happen.
I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything.
With our human limitations we're not always able to understand the explanations.
If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free.
You cannot take credit for your talents. It is what you do with them that counts.
I suspect that in every good marriage there are times when love seems to be over.
Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.
For the things that are seen are temporal, but things that are unseen are eternal.
The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long.
Nothing, no one, is too small to matter. What you do is going to make a difference.
Anything that's natural can't be sinful-it may be inconvenient, but it's not sinful.
Don't keep putting your anger off. Until you go through it, you can't get out of it.
My lovely shining fragile broken house is filled with flowers and founded on a rock.
Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.
Meg, when people don't know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named
You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.
Sometimes when we aren't looking, the holiness comes breaking through like a rainbow.
I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive.
Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are.
Qui plussait, plus se tait. French, you know. The more a man knows, the less he talks.
A community to be truly community, must have a quality of unselfconsciousness about it.
We need the rock of the past under our feet in order to spring forward into the future.
Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition.
What is self-image? Who started talking about one? I rather fancy it was Madison Avenue.
God understands. And God understands that part of us which is more than we think we are.
It is not always on the great or the important that the balance of the universe depends.
Humility is throwing oneself away in complete concentration on something or someone else.
That's a sure way to tell about somebody--the way they play, or don't play, make-believe.
The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.
The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly.
And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.