For grace to be grace, it must give us things we didn't know we needed and take us places where we didn't know we didn't want to go. As we stumble th….

But it is daily tasks, daily acts of love and worship that serve to remind us that the religion is not strictly an intellectual pursuit, and these da….

Disconnecting from change does not recapture the past. It loses the future..

I wonder if children don't begin to reject both poetry and religion for similar reasons, because the way both are taught takes the life out of them..

Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret..

This is a God who is not identified with the help of a dictionary but through a relationship..

Changing husbands is only changing troubles..

I am learning to see loneliness as a seed that, when planted deep enough, can grow into writing that goes back out into the world..

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier..

Men are more conventional than women and much slower to change their ideas..

Poets are immersed in process, and I mean process not as an amorphous blur but as a discipline. The hard work of writing has taught me that in matter….

The demon of acedia -- also called the noonday demon -- is the one that causes the most serious trouble of all. . . . He makes it seem that the sun b….

Like faith, marriage is a mystery. The person you're committed to spending your life with is known and yet unknown, at the same time remarkably intim….

In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular..

There seems to be so much more winter than we need this year..

Before you begin a thing, remind yourself that difficulties and delays quite impossible to foresee are ahead. If you could see them clearly, naturall….

If grace is so wonderful, why do we have such difficulty recognizing and accepting it? Maybe it's because grace is not gentle or made-to-order. It of….

True hospitality is marked by an open response to the dignity of each and every person. Henri Nouwen has described it as receiving the stranger on hi….

Each and every one of us has one obligation, during the bewildered days of our pilgrimage here: the saving of his own soul, and secondarily and incid….

Acedia is a danger to anyone whose work requires great concentration and discipline yet is considered by many to be of little practical value. The wo….

I sense that striving for wholeness is, increasingly, a countercultural goal, as fragmented people make for better consumers..