If we accept that we have at least an iota of free will, we cannot throw it back the moment things go wrong. Like a human parent, God will help us when we ask for help, but in a way that will make us more mature, more real, not in a way that will diminish us.

We human beings grow through our failures, not our virtues.

The journey homewards. Coming home. That's what it's all about. The journey to the coming of the Kingdom. That's probably the chief difference between the Christian and the secular artist--the purpose of the work, be it story or music or painting, is to further the coming of the kingdom, to make us aware of our status as children of God, and to turn our feet toward home.

the discoveries don't come when you're looking for them. They come when for some reason you've let go conscious control.

Refusing to accept God's love because we're unworthy - of course we're unworthy! - is another golden calf.

'A Wrinkle in Time' was almost never published. You can't name a major publisher who didn't reject it.

It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she, too, felt that the words Darkness and Light had no meaning, and only this melody was real.