All we are asked to bear we can bear.

Imagination comes from yourself and can deceive you, but vision is a gift from outside yourself - like light striking on your closed eyelids and lifting them to see what's really there.

Marriage is a very long process.

Peace ... was contingent upon a certain disposition of the soul, a disposition to receive the gift that only detachment from self made possible.

Faith given back to us after a night of doubt is a stronger thing, and far more valuable to us than faith that has never been tested.

The child in us is always there, you know, and it's the best part of us, the winged part that travels farthest.

What is the scent of water?" "Renewal. The goodness of God coming down like dew.