Occupation: Poet Birth: July 27, 1947
But hope has an astonishing resilience and strength. Its very persistence in our hearts indicates that it is not a tonic for wishful thinkers but the….
The Christian religion asks us to put our trust not in ideas, and certainly not in ideologies, but in a God Who was vulnerable enough to become human….
We shortchange ourselves by regarding religious faith as a matter of intellectual assent. This is a modern aberration; the traditional Christian view….
One may have been a fool, but there's no foolishness like being bitter..
The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry..
Traversing a slow page, to come upon a lode of the pure shining metal is to exult inwardly for greedy hours..
But in order to have an adult faith, most of us have to outgrow and unlearn much of what we were taught about religion..
Peace - that was the other name for home..
We can't give our children the future, strive though we may to make it secure. But we can give them the present..
Wariness about change is a kind of prairie wisdom..
It's all so beautiful . . . the spring . . . and books and music and fires. . . . Why aren't they enough?.
In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment are ….
There are men I could spend eternity with. But not this life..
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….
Pay close attention to objects, events and natural phenomenon that would otherwise get chewed up in the daily grind..
Laundry, liturgy and women's work all serve to ground us in the world, and they need not grind us down. Our daily tasks, whether we perceive them as ….
Over and over again mediocrity is promoted because real worth isn't to be found..
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..
The often heard lament, 'I have so little time,' gives the lie to the delusion that the daily is of little significance..
Friendship is an art, and very few persons are born with a natural gift for it..
To be an American is to move on, as if we could outrun change. To attach oneself to place is to surrender to it, and suffer with it..