Accepting that we are angry is a healthy and appropriate response as long as we don't get stuck in it. Acknowledging it is one way of going through it.

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.

There was no light. The darkness was deep and there was no dazzle.

As I listen to the silence, I learn that my feelings about art and my feelings about the Creator of the Universe are inseparable. To try to talk about art and about Christianity is for me one and the same thing, and it means attempting to share the meaning of my life, what gives it, for me, its tragedy and its glory.

You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.

When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.

But my memories are like a fire in winter—whenever I'm cold I can warm my hands at them. —Ditta