Gail Godwin has written a book about the heaviest matters of loss, grief, and loneliness with a touch so light that I was as often deeply amused by it as I was deeply moved.

Gail Godwin has written a book about the heaviest matters of loss, grief, and loneliness with a touch so light that I was as often deeply amused by it as I was deeply moved.

Despair has been called the unforgivable sin-not presumably because God refuses to forgive it, but because it despairs of the possibility of being forgiven.

The world speaks of holy things in the only language it knows, which is worldly language.

No words come easily to my lips. I think ultimately - what I like to think is that I'm in some sense hearing the mystery itself.

To be wise is to be eternally curious.

Where your deep gladness meets with the deep hunger of the world, there you will find a further calling.