I feel as though I'm not breathing when I'm out of his presence. He's the oxygen in my air, the sun in my universe, the staff of my life. —Jane Gardiner
the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control.
If we accept that we have at least an iota of free will, we cannot throw it back the moment things go wrong. Like a human parent, God will help us when we ask for help, but in a way that will make us more mature, more real, not in a way that will diminish us.
The joys of love...last only a moment. The sorrows of love last all the life long.
Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.
Friends do everything they can to protect each other." --Polly
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 all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which we are real.
there are dozens and dozens of ways to be a family ... Family tends to happen.
If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.
We need the rock of the past under our feet in order to spring forward into the future.
We have not wondered enough at the delights God has given us to appreciate them, and be good stewards. We have overworked the land, poured pollutants into river and stream, fouled the air we breathe with gas fumes and chemical smoke spiraling up from industrial chimneys. We have sown the wind. We are reaping the whirlwind.
Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?
Great art always transcends its culture, while lesser art merely reflects it.
Art is an affirmation of life, a rebuttal of death. And here we blunder into paradox again, for during the creation of any form of art, art which affirms the value and the holiness of life, the artist must die. To serve a work of art, great or small, is to die, to die to self.
Picasso says that an artists paints not to ask a question but because he has found something and he wants to share—he cannot help it—what he has found.
Refusing to accept God's love because we're unworthy - of course we're unworthy! - is another golden calf.
When a bride insists on telling her lover everything, I suspect she is looking for a father, not a husband.
Love. That was what she had that IT did not have.
poets are born knowing the language of angels
Speaking of ways, pet, by the way, there is such a thing as a tesseract.
'A Wrinkle in Time' was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it.
When a child who has been conceived in love is born to a man and a woman, the joy of that birth sings throughout the universe. The joy of writing or painting is much the same, and the insemination comes not from the artist himself but from his relationship with those he loves, with the whole world. All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is not such thing as a non-religious subject.
I know writers who write only when inspiration comes. How would Isaac Stern play if he played the violin only when he felt like it? He would be lousy.
Women must be very gentle with men as they, as well as women, seek to regain the lost wholeness for which they were destined.
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