There is no justice in love, no proportion in it, and there need not be, because in any specific instance it is only a glimpse or parable of an embra….

Sometimes I have loved the peacefulness of an ordinary Sunday. It is like standing in a newly planted garden after a warm rain. You can feel the sile….

Weary or bitter of bewildered as we may be, God is faithful. He lets us wander so we will know what it means to come home..

We experience pain and difficulty as failure instead of saying, I will pass through this, everyone I have ever admired has passed through this, music….

There is so little to remember of anyone - an anecdote, a conversation at a table. But every memory is turned over and over again, every word, howeve….

We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature..

We inhabit, we are part of, a reality for which explanation is much too poor and small..

For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything..

Love is holy because it is like grace--the worthiness of its object is never really what matters..

You build your mind, so make it into something you want to live with..

There is a saying that to understand is to forgive, but that is an error, so Papa used to say. You must forgive in order to understand. Until you for….

There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is to do great harm..

Ordinary things have always seemed numinous to me.

I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing and what we ought to do. I want to feel that art is an utterance made….

To recognize our bias toward error should teach us modesty and reflection, and to forgive it should help us avoid the inhumanity of thinking we ourse….

We have demythologized prematurely, that we've actually lost the vocabulary for discussing reality at its largest scales. The idea that myth is the o….

This is an interesting planet. It deserves all the attention you can give it..

Never, ever condescend to the reader. Assume you are writing for someone better and smarter than you are. This will protect you from conventionalism,….

Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was..

Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense..

Memory is the sense of loss, and loss pulls us after it..