Occupation: Writer Birth: November 29, 1918 Death: September 6, 2007
There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure..
Only a fool is not afraid..
You have to write the book that wants to be written..
If our lives are truly "hid with Christ in God," the astounding thing is that this hiddenness is revealed in all that we do and say and write. What w….
I am convinced that each work of art, be it a great work of genius or something very small, has its own life, and it will come to the artist, the com….
We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts..
What can we give a child when there is nothing left? All we have, I think, is the truth, the truth that will set him free, not limited, provable trut….
Man has a viewpoint, but God has the view..
Thou cannot harm a butterfly, without troubling a star..
Only Christ can free us from the prison of legalism, and then only if we are willing to be freed..
Love isn't how you feel. It's what you do. I've never had a feeling in my life. As a matter of fact, I matter only with earth people..
Don't keep putting your anger off. Until you go through it, you can't get out of it..
The images were gone, but Calvin was there, was with her, was part of her. She had moved beyond knowing him in sensory images to that place which is ….
I wrote because I wanted to know what everything was about..
When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things..
Death is contagious; it is contracted the moment we are conceived..
It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she, too, fe….
When we are writing, or painting, or composing, we are, during the time of creativity, freed from normal restrictions, and are opened to a wider worl….
When I look at the galaxies on a clear night - when I look at the incredible brilliance of creation, and think that this is what God is like, then in….
Love can't be pinned down by a definition, and it certainly can't be proved, any more than anything else important in life can be proved..
We can surely no longer pretend that our children are growing up into a peaceful, secure, and civilized world. We've come to the point where it's irr….