Only Christ can free us from the prison of legalism, and then only if we are willing to be freed.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

If we are not willing to fail we will never accomplish anything. All creative acts involve the risk of failure.

George MacDonald gives me renewed strength during times of trouble--times when I have seen people tempted to deny God--when he says, "The Son of God suffered unto death, not that men might not suffer, but that their sufferings might be like his.

Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of sand holds power and might.

Love of music, of sunsets and sea; a liking for the same kind of people; political opinions that are not radically divergent; a similar stance as we look at the stars and think of the marvelous strangeness of the universe - these are what build a marriage. And it is never to be taken for granted.

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