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..

Spring seems far off, impossible, but it is coming. Already there is dusk instead of darkness at five in the afternoon; already hope is stirring at t….

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

The very nature of marriage means saying yes before you know what it will cost. Though you may say the “I do” of the wedding ritual in all sincerity,….

If we are lucky, we can give in and rest without feeling guilty. We can stop doing and concentrate on being..

Prayer is not asking for what you think you want, but asking to be changed in ways you can't imagine..

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

Changing husbands is only changing troubles..

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….

When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?.

Maybe the desert wisdom of the Dakotas can teach us to love anyway, to love what is dying, in the face of death, and not pretend that things are othe….

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….

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….

Wariness about change is a kind of prairie wisdom..

You can only see one thing clearly, and that is your goal. Form a mental vision of that, and cling to it through thick and thin..

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….

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

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..

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

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

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