A self is not something static, tied up in a pretty parcel and handed to the child, finished and complete. A self is always becoming.

All real art is, in its true sense, religious; it is a religious impulse; there is no such thing as a non-religious subject. But much bad or downright sacrilegious art depicts so-called religious subjects.

We can't take any credit for our talents. It's how we use them that counts.

We need the rock of the past under our feet in order to spring forward into the future.

Holiness ... is nothing we can *do* ... It is gift, sheer gift, waiting there to be recognized and received. We do not have to be qualified to be holy. We do not have to be qualified to be whole, or healed.Made

We think because we have words, not the other way around. The more words we have, the better able we are to think conceptually.

I rebel against death, yet I know that it is how I respond to death's inevitability that is going to make me less or more fully alive.