There's nothing more physically exhausting than a sense of failure.

if a book is not good enough for a grownup, it is not good enough for a child.

When we make ourselves vulnerable, we do open ourselves to pain, sometimes excruciating pain. The more people we love, the more we are liable to be hurt, and not only by the people we love, but for the people we love.

Don't try to comprehend with your mind. Your minds are very limited. Use your intuition.

Only Christ can free us from the prison of legalism, and then only if we are willing to be freed.

And I can't say it now. I can't say what I want to say. I hold you-- I-- I clutch you, because I love you so desperately, and time is so short, we have such a little time in which to live and be young, even at best, and I put my arms around you and hold you because I want to love you while I can and I want to know I'm loving you, only it doesn't mean anything because you aren't afraid. You aren't frightened so that you want to clutch it all while you can.

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