Agape love is...profound concern for the well-being of another, without any desire to control that other, to be thanked by that other, or to enjoy th….

Believing takes practice..

A mystic is a person who sees the facts as inadequate..

Accepting that we are angry is a healthy and appropriate response as long as we don't get stuck in it. Acknowledging it is one way of going through i….

The medieval mystics say the true image and the true real met once and for all on the cross: once and for all: and yet they still meet daily..

It is an extraordinary and beautiful thing that God, in creation. . . works with the beauty of matter; the reality of things; the discoveries of the ….

I cannot believe that God wants punishment to go on interminably any more than does a loving parent. The entire purpose of loving punishment is to te….

All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs..

I believe that each work of art, whether it is a work of great genius, or something very small, comes to the artist and says, "Here I am. Enflesh me.….

Stories make us more alive, more human, more courageous, more loving..

Art is communication..

I used to feel guilty about spending morning hours working on a book; about fleeing to the brook in the afternoon. It took several summers of being t….

But there is something about Time. The sun rises and sets. The stars swing slowly across the sky and fade. Clouds fill with rain and snow, empty them….

What I believe is so magnificent, so glorious, that it is beyond finite comprehension. To believe that the universe was created by a purposeful, beni….

As paredes tem ouvidos. (Portuguese: The walls have ears.).

I have a point of view. You have a point of view. God has view..

We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as w….

Meg, when people don't know who they are, they are open either to being Xed, or Named.

There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like ….

On the other side of pain, there is still love..

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise..