prayer is whenever we consciously try to get in contact with the numinous, the ineffable, the marvelous.

You're going to get hurt yourself, and badly, if you take everything so hard.

God understands. And God understands that part of us which is more than we think we are.

In the evening of life we shall be judged on love, and not one of us is going to come off very well, and were it not for my absolute faith in the loving forgiveness of my Lord I could not call on him to come.

In art we are once again able to do all the things we have forgotten; we are able to walk on water; we speak to the angels who call us; we move, unfettered, among the stars.

We do learn and develop when we are exposed to those who are greater than we are. Perhaps this is the chief way we mature.

For that moment, at least, all our doors and windows were wide open; we were not carefully shutting out God's purifying light, in order to feel safe and secure; we were bathed in the same light that burned and yet did not consume the bush. We walked barefoot on holy ground.