The shadows are deepening all around us. Now is the time when we must begin to see our world and ourselves in a different way.

In a very real sense not one of us is qualified, but it seems that God continually chooses the most unqualified to do his work, to bear his glory. If we are qualified, we tend to think that we have done the job ourselves. If we are forced to accept our evident lack of qualification, then there's no danger that we will confuse God's work with our own, or God's glory with our own.

We do have to use our minds as far as they will take us, yet acknowledging that they cannot take us all the way.

Schooling, instead of encouraging the asking of questions, too often discourages it.

Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.

Compassion is nothing one feels with the intellect alone. Compassion is particular; it is never general.

You don’t know the meaning of moderation, do you, my darling? A happy medium is something I wonder if you’ll ever learn.