Almost all the joyful things of life are outside the measure of IQ tests..

My lovely shining fragile broken house is filled with flowers and founded on a rock..

Wherever she was, holy laughter was present to heal and redeem..

The minute we begin to think we have all the answers, we forget the questions..

But grief still has to be worked through. It is like walking through water. Sometimes there are little waves lapping about my feet. Sometimes there i….

I've got a sweater." Ben pulled off his coat and held it out for her. "Here." "Thanks, Ben. It's lovely and warm." Then she said, "Ben, I-- I can tel….

Holiness ... is nothing we can *do* ... It is gift, sheer gift, waiting there to be recognized and received. We do not have to be qualified to be hol….

You don't want him for a reason. You want him because he's your father..

All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious subject. But much bad or downrigh….

People are more than just the way they look..

I think your mythology would call them fallen angels. War and hate are their business, and one of their chief weapons is un-Naming - making people no….

Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are hurt, we learned not to trust..

Like and equal are two entirely different things..

It's a very American trait, this wanting people to think well of us. It's a young want, and I am ashamed of it in myself. I am not always a good daug….

I got so discouraged, I almost stopped writing. It was my 12-year-old son who changed my mind when he said to me, "Mother, you've been very cross and….

Vitam impendere vero. To stake one's life for the truth..

We cannot always cry at the right time and who is to say which time is right?.

The world of science lives fairly comfortably with paradox. We know that light is a wave, and also that light is a particle. The discoveries made in ….

For the things that are seen are temporal, but things that are unseen are eternal..

It was a dark and stormy night..

My protagonists, male and female, are me..