I am not some kind of computer. Only machines have glib answers for everything..

Sometimes when we aren't looking, the holiness comes breaking through like a rainbow..

The only way to cope with something deadly serious is to try to treat it a little lightly..

When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for children. Children are excited by new ideas; the….

God is over all things, under all things; outside all; within, but not enclosed; without, but not excluded; above, but not raised up; below; but not ….

There is in God, some say, a deep but dazzling darkness..

In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If….

There was no light. The darkness was deep and there was no dazzle..

With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me..

She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present..

Anything that's natural can't be sinful-it may be inconvenient, but it's not sinful..

As I listen to the silence, I learn that my feelings about art and my feelings about the Creator of the Universe are inseparable. To try to talk abo….

Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth..

what I must learn is to love with all of me, giving all of me, and yet remain whole in myself. Any other kind of love is too demanding of the other; ….

Friends--or lovers--are not always available to each other. Inner turmoils can cause us to be unhearing when someone needs us, to need to receive und….

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children..

Anger is not bitterness. Bitterness can go on eating at a man's heart and mind forever. Anger spends itself in its own time..

To grow up is to find the small part you are playing in the extraordinary drama written by somebody else..

To pray is to listen, to move through my own chattering to God, to that place where I can be silent and listen to what God may have to say..

Rather than feeling lost and unimportant and meaningless, set against galaxies which go beyond the reach of the furthest telescopes, I feel that my l….

How do we teach a child our own, or those in a classroom to have compassion: to allow people to be different; to understand that like is not equal; t….