When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.
Lillian SmithFaith and doubt both are needed - not as antagonists, but working side by side to take us around the unknown curve.
Lillian SmithMan, born of woman, has found it a hard thing to forgive her for giving him birth. The patriarchal protest against the ancient matriarch has borne strange fruit through the years.
Lillian SmithNone but the weak crave to be better than. Strong men are satisfied with their own strength.
Lillian SmithTo find the point where hypothesis and fact meet; the delicate equilibrium between dream and reality; the place where fantasy and earthly things are metamorphosed into a work of art; the hour when faith in the future becomes knowledge of the past; to lay down one's power for others in need; to shake off the old ordeal and get ready for the new; to question, knowing that never can the full answer be found; to accept uncertainties quietly, even our incomplete knowledge of God; this is what man's journey is about, I think.
Lillian Smith