There is nothing we need be afraid to say before the Lord.

There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure.

A mystic is a person who sees the facts as inadequate.

We have not wondered enough at the delights God has given us to appreciate them, and be good stewards. We have overworked the land, poured pollutants into river and stream, fouled the air we breathe with gas fumes and chemical smoke spiraling up from industrial chimneys. We have sown the wind. We are reaping the whirlwind.

The discipline of creation, be it to paint, compose, write, is an effort towards wholeness.

God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty.

A life lived in chaos is an impossibility.