Sometimes when we aren't looking, the holiness comes breaking through like a rainbow.

Inspiration does not always precede the act of writing; it often follows it.

If our lives are truly "hid with Christ in God," the astounding thing is that this hiddenness is revealed in all that we do and say and write. What we are is going to be visible in our art, no matter how secular (on the surface) the subject may be.

I wrote because I wanted to know what everything was about.

If we all knew each morning that there was going to be another morning, and on and on and on, we's tend not to notice the sunrise, or hear the birds, or the waves rolling into the shore. We'd tend not to treasure our time with the people we love. Simply the awareness that our mortal lives had a beginning and will have an end enhances the quality of our living. Perhaps it's even more intense when we know that the termination of the body is near, but it shouldn't be.

Euripedes. Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything.

Great art transcends its culture and touches on that which is eternal.