We have to be braver than we think we can be, because God is constantly calling us to be more than we are.

the artist is not separate from the work and therefore cannot judge it.

anything that stretches the mind is a help to the potential author.

Anything that's natural can't be sinful-it may be inconvenient, but it's not sinful.

You learn to write by doing it.

... nothing loved is ever lost or perished.

I would like to travel light on this journey of life, to get rid of the encumbrances I acquire each day. . . . The most difficult thing to let go is my self, that self which, coddled and cozened, becomes smaller as it becomes heavier. I don't understand how and why I come to be only as I lose myself, but I know from long experience that this is so.