It's a good thing to have all the props pulled out from under us occasionally. It gives us some sense of what is rock under our feet, and what is sand.

We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

Deepest communion with God is beyond words, on the other side of silence.

At Tara in this fateful hour, I place all Heaven with its power, And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness, And the fire with all the strength it hath, And the lightning with its rapid wrath, And the winds with their swiftness along their path, And the sea with its deepness, And the rocks with their steepness, And the earth with its starkness: All these I place, By God's almighty help and grace Between myself and the powers of darkness!

She seems to have had the ability to stand firmly on the rock of her past while living completely and unregretfully in the present.

We do not know what things look like. We know what things are like. It must be a very limiting thing,this seeing. -Aunt Beast

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