There is nothing so secular that it cannot be sacred, and that is one of the deepest messages of the Incarnation.

Time exists so that everything doesn't happen at once.

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

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

To be a witness means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist.

I used to feel guilty about spending morning hours working on a book; about fleeing to the brook in the afternoon. It took several summers of being totally frazzled by September to make me realize that this was a false guilt. I'm much more use to family and friends when I'm not physically and spiritually depleted than when I spend my energies as though they were unlimited. They are not. The time at the typewriter and the time at the brook refresh me and put me into a more workable perspective.

Wherever she was, holy laughter was present to heal and redeem.