If I sit for a while, then my impatience, crossness, frustration, are indeed annihilated, and my sense of humor returns.

A great painting or symphony or play, doesn't diminish us, but enlarges us, and we, too, want to make our own cry of affirmation to the power of Creation behind the Universe.

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

I feel as though I'm not breathing when I'm out of his presence. He's the oxygen in my air, the sun in my universe, the staff of my life. —Jane Gardiner

Be aware that rigidity imprisons.

A book comes and says, 'Write me.

We are suspicious of grace. We are afraid of the very lavishness of the gift.