Natural history is not taught in seminary. This is curious, as most people in pastoral ministry are about 567 times more likely to be asked about cos…

- Sara Maitland

Art is an artificial organization of experience.

- Sara Maitland

If you tell people enough times that they are unhappy, incomplete, possibly insane and definitely selfish there is bound to come a grey morning when …

- Sara Maitland

Being alone in our present society raises an important question about identity and well-being.

- Sara Maitland

Ian Watson did an almost full novel length treatment which I've never seen and when he finished it Stanley said to him. I need somebody to smear this…

- Sara Maitland

It is not simply that we share with each other a common humanity, but that individually we have no humanity without each other.

- Sara Maitland

Art forms render ideas accessible to readers who could not receive those insights in any other format.

- Sara Maitland

Of course we also live in a world of great beauty, sacrificial and passionate love, tenderness, prosperity, courage and joy. But quite a lot of all t…

- Sara Maitland

Another of the things I started to do during this time was what Buddhists normally call "meditation" or, in Christian terms, "contemplative prayer". …

- Sara Maitland